Undocumented property

Plot legend customization

Matlab plot legends and their internal components can be customized using a variety of undocumented properties that are easily accessible.

July 12, 2018 7 Comments Read More »

MathWorks-solicited Java survey

MathWorks is soliciting user feedbacks about the use of Java components in Matlab programs.

March 23, 2017 2 Comments Read More »

Sending email/text messages from Matlab

Sending emails and SMS (text) messages from Matlab is easy, once you know a few quirks.

December 7, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Faster findjobj

the ubiquitous findjobj utility has been significantly improved for speed for the most common use case.

April 11, 2016 11 Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots part 2

The contour lines of 3D Matlab plot can be customized in many different ways. This is the 2nd article on this issue.

March 9, 2016 5 Comments Read More »

HG2 update

HG2 appears to be nearing release. It is now a stable mature system.

May 15, 2013 134 Comments Read More »

Pinning annotations to graphs

Annotation object can be programmatically set at, and pinned-to, plot axes data points.

December 12, 2012 13 Comments Read More »

Types of undocumented Matlab aspects

This article lists the different types of undocumented/unsupported/hidden aspects in Matlab

November 24, 2011 No Comments Read More »

getundoc – get undocumented object properties

getundoc is a very simple utility that displays the hidden (undocumented) properties of a specified handle object.

September 21, 2011 8 Comments Read More »

Controlling plot data-tips

Data-tips are an extremely useful plotting tool that can easily be controlled programmatically.

September 14, 2011 82 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (8 days 6 hours ago): There is no direct way to replicate the CW in a GUI window, you’ll need to display the text in the GUI using your program logic. Here is one possible implementation that...
Sunki Reddy Gunugu (10 days 4 hours ago): hi 1.i would like to know how the error in command window of matlab is captured and displayed in the GUI with the same color in CW 2. Is their any way to replicate the...
Matthias Brenneis (12 days 22 hours ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...
Collin (32 days 20 hours ago): Yair, In 2020a Mathworks added this semi-useful class matlab.ui.internal.JavaMigrati onTools Which contains static methods to call javacomponent, actxcontrol or to get an...
Yair Altman (36 days 5 hours ago): @Pierre – thanks for sharing this clever useful trick
Pierre (36 days 5 hours ago): Hello, This post has been really useful to me. I just want to share a small trick. I have no idea whether it is reproducible or how it works, but it does the job for me (Win 10,...
Hannes (43 days 3 hours ago): It is also not working for me on R2019a Update 5. Best Hannes.
Yair Altman (48 days 1 hour ago): @Peter – the graphics system might not be fully initialized by the time that the startup script is being executed by the Matlab engine. I suggest placing the relevant code...
Philip (48 days 6 hours ago): Yair, How would I implement a renderer for com.jidesoft.combobox.DateSpin nerComboBox so that the editor remains the same (combo box with spinner) but the renderer displays as a...
Reza (48 days 11 hours ago): Yair, I found the solution by using “hFills(i).StripDataR 21;. Thanks
Reza (48 days 14 hours ago): Hi Yair, There is “VertexData” in property of “TriangleStrip .FacePrims”, but there is no information about patch “faces” that can connect vertices...
Peter (50 days 19 hours ago): I have a problem with putting this into the startup.m to be executed at the beginning of the MATLAB session. jDesktop = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDeskt op.getInstance; try cmdWin =...
Alex (56 days 3 hours ago): Hi, I was wondering if there is a possibility to integrate a text field with label and another table in one cell of the tree table, or is it restricted to ComboBoxes and Checkboxes? Is...
Jan (63 days 21 hours ago): Is there a reason why this function was removed from the Matlab File Exchange? I prefer a simplified DBSTACK solution: function flag = isMultipleCall() s = dbstack(); flag = (numel(s) >...
geetha (64 days 5 hours ago): Hi am uitree and some line am getting this error error in @(tree,evd)evalin('base',sprin tf(['ldp_temp_blockhandle=%.20 f;','set(ldp_temp_blockhandle, ''UserData'',setfield(get(l...