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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 »
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Recent Comments
  • 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...
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