Undocumented property

Minimize/maximize figure window

Matlab figure windows can easily be maximized, minimized and restored using a bit of undocumented magic powder

May 18, 2011 51 Comments Read More »

UDD Properties

UDD provides a very convenient way to add customizable properties to existing Matlab object handles

March 9, 2011 8 Comments Read More »

Multi-column (grid) legend

This article explains how to use undocumented axes listeners for implementing multi-column plot legends

February 7, 2011 5 Comments Read More »

Panel-level uicontrols

Matlab's uipanel contains a hidden handle to the title label, which can be modified into a checkbox or radio-button control

November 24, 2010 17 Comments Read More »

Plot performance

Undocumented inner plot mechanisms can significantly improve plotting performance

June 16, 2010 35 Comments Read More »

Matlab's HG2 mechanism

HG2 is presumably the next generation of Matlab graphics. This article tries to explore its features.

May 7, 2010 13 Comments Read More »

Plot LimInclude properties

The plot objects' XLimInclude, YLimInclude, ZLimInclude, ALimInclude and CLimInclude properties are an important feature, that has both functional and performance implications.

March 31, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Axes LooseInset property

Matlab plot axes have an undocumented LooseInset property that sets empty margins around the axes, and can be set to provide a tighter fit of the axes to their surroundings.

March 24, 2010 21 Comments Read More »

Plot LineSmoothing property

LineSmoothing is a hidden and undocumented plot line property that creates anti-aliased (smooth unpixelized) lines in Matlab plots

March 17, 2010 34 Comments Read More »

Solving a MATLAB bug by subclassing

Matlab's Image Processing Toolbox's impoint function contains an annoying bug that can be fixed using some undocumented properties.

February 7, 2010 4 Comments Read More »

Marcel (15 hours 22 minutes ago): Hi, I am trying to set the legend to Static, but this command seems not to work in R2022a anymore: set(gca,’LegendColorbarL isteners’,[]); Any ideas? THANKS / marcel
Gres (19 hours 17 minutes ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
Yair Altman (2 days 14 hours ago): @Mitchell – in most cases the user wants a single string identifier for the computer, that uniquely identifies it with a distinct fingerprint that is different from any...
Mitchell (2 days 22 hours ago): Great post! I’m not very familiar with the network interfaces being referenced here, but it seems like the java-based cross-platform method concatenates all network...
Yair Altman (5 days 16 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
dani (6 days 11 hours ago): hi!! how i can set the horizontal scrollbar to the leftside when appearing! now it set to right side of text
Yair Altman (15 days 8 hours ago): Dom – call drawnow *just before* you set hLine.MarkerHandle.FaceColorTy pe to 'truecoloralpha'. Also, you made a typo in your code: it’s truecoloralpha, not...
Dom (16 days 7 hours ago): Yair I have tried your code with trucoloralpha and the markers do not appear transparent in R2021b, same as for Oliver.
Yair Altman (19 days 14 hours ago): Ren – This is usually the expected behavior, which avoids unnecessary duplications of the Excel process in CPU/memory. If you want to kill the process you can always run...
Yair Altman (20 days 4 hours ago): When you use plot() without hold(‘on’), each new plot() clears the axes and draws a new line, so your second plot() of p2 caused the first plot() line (p1) to be...
Cesim Dumlu (26 days 11 hours ago): Hello. I am trying to do a gradient plot for multiple functions to be displayed on the same axes and each one is colorcoded by respective colordata, using the same scaling. The...
Yair Altman (34 days 14 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
Veronica Taurino (34 days 14 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (34 days 15 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...
Yair Altman (37 days 15 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...