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- Antonio (12 days 0 hours ago): Note Intel’s MKL implementations of BLAS/LAPACK are already multi-threaded, so it is likely that you won’t achieve a vast improvement (the overall performance could even...
- Testing 123 (249 days 15 hours ago): The mexCallMATLAB function raises interesting possibilities for parallelization. I spent a few hours (days…) writing a mexFunction that mimics the functionality of...
- Andrés Aguilar (388 days 14 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ———— 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
- Yair Altman (680 days 17 hours ago): You didn’t say what code you were trying to run and what exactly didn’t work for you, so I cannot help you. In general I can say that the code still works ok on...
- Nicholas (682 days 14 hours ago): It has come to my attention that in R2022a the content for HtmlText and CurrentLocation cannot be set for an HTMLBrowserPanel object. This can be easily demonstrated in R2022a with...
- bryan taylor (683 days 21 hours ago): I’m using matlab r2021a. The command above don’t seem to work. The commands run without error but the changes do no effect the text box.
- Yair Altman (700 days 22 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 other...
- Mitchell (701 days 7 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...
- Eric (749 days 19 hours ago): this save me a lot of time, thank you very much!
- Yair Altman (1071 days 15 hours ago): You forgot to wait for the figure and the axes to fully render. After a pause and drawnow the code works ok (at least in R2021a).
- Anton Semechko (1071 days 16 hours ago): Hi, Yair, Do you know why is it impossible to add listeners to any of the uiobjects in UIFigure? And is there some way to work around this limitation? For example:...
- Davide Coluzzi (1106 days 15 hours ago): Hello, I have just found out this website and the book, they are great! Many thanks for this. I am developing a GUI in Matlab and I added a uiimage to receive info, so that...
- Yair Altman (1223 days 21 hours ago): drawnow is the entry function to Matlab graphics updates, which chains numerous internal drawing/painting calls, as well as associated callbacks (internal and user-defined)....
- Ondrej (1223 days 21 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a slightly off-topic question. I am using Matlab 2017a and when using drawnow to refresh the graphics I noticed in the profiler (with -memory option on) this: Code...
- Florian (1455 days 5 hours ago): Hello Yair thank you for this work. I am trying to using the sorting function but obviously it treat my ‘double’ as ‘string’. Then the sorting of the numbers...
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Category Archives: UI controls
52 relevant articles found:Matlab toolstrip – part 6 (complex controls)
Multiple types of customizable controls can be added to Matlab toolstrips
Categories: Figure window, GUI, High risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls, Undocumented feature
Tags: Figure, GUI, Toolstrip, Undocumented feature
4 Comments
Tags: Figure, GUI, Toolstrip, Undocumented feature
4 Comments
Matlab toolstrip – part 4 (control customization)
Matlab toolstrip components (controls) can be customized in various ways, including user-defined callbacks.
IP address input control
A built-in JIDE control can be used in Matlab GUI for IP-address entry/display.
Categories: GUI, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java, UI controls, Undocumented feature
Tags: GUI, Java, JIDE, Undocumented feature
3 Comments
Tags: GUI, Java, JIDE, Undocumented feature
3 Comments
Customizing uifigures part 3
As I have repeatedly posted in recent years, Matlab is advancing towards web-based GUI. The basic underlying technology is more-or-less stable: an HTML/Javascript webpage that is created-on-the-fly and rendered in a stripped-down browser window (based on Chromium-based jxBrowser in recent […]
GUI formatting using HTML
HTML formatting an be used to align and background-color text within Matlab uicontrols such as buttons, listboxes, uitables etc.
Aligning uicontrol contents
Matlab uicontrols can often be customized using plain HTML/CSS, without need for advanced Java.
Categories: GUI, Low risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls, Undocumented feature
Tags: GUI, HTML, Pure Matlab, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
6 Comments
Tags: GUI, HTML, Pure Matlab, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
6 Comments
Listbox selection hacks
Matlab listbox selection can be customized in a variety of undocumented ways.
Categories: GUI, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls, Undocumented feature
Tags: Callbacks, Java, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
4 Comments
Tags: Callbacks, Java, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
4 Comments
Smart listbox & editbox scrollbars
Matlab listbox and multi-line editbox scrollbars can easily be made smarter, for improved appearance.
Categories: GUI, Java, Low risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls, Undocumented feature
Tags: GUI, Java, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
6 Comments
Tags: GUI, Java, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
6 Comments
Faster findjobj
the ubiquitous findjobj utility has been significantly improved for speed for the most common use case.
Categories: GUI, Handle graphics, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java, UI controls
Tags: FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame, Undocumented feature, Undocumented property
11 Comments
Tags: FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame, Undocumented feature, Undocumented property
11 Comments