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- Antonio (10 days 12 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 (248 days 3 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 (387 days 2 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
- Yair Altman (679 days 5 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 (681 days 2 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 (682 days 9 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 (699 days 10 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 (699 days 19 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 (748 days 8 hours ago): this save me a lot of time, thank you very much!
- Yair Altman (1070 days 4 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 (1070 days 4 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 (1105 days 3 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 (1222 days 9 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 (1222 days 9 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 (1453 days 17 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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52 relevant articles found:Adding dynamic properties to graphic handles
It is easy and very useful to attach dynamic properties to Matlab graphics objects in run-time.
Customizing Matlab uipanels
Matlab uipanel controls can be customized using Java in ways that are impossible with plain Matlab.
Unorthodox checkbox usage
There are various ways to display interactive split-panes in Matlab GUI. Uiextras flex-panels override a checkbox control’s CData to display a divider.
Customizing combobox popups
Matlab combobox (dropdown) popups can be customized in a variety of ways.
Customizing listbox/combobox items
Matlab listboxes can be customized using custom Java cell-renderers.
Undocumented button highlighting
Matlab button uicontrols can easily be highlighted by simply setting their Value property.
Listbox layout customization
Matlab’s listbox layout can be modified to display multiple item columns and different inter-cell margins.
Editable combo-box
Matlab’s popup menu (combo-box) control is quite limited in its abilities. This article explains how we can work around these limitations.
Editbox data input validation
Undocumented features of Matlab editbox uicontrols enable immediate user-input data validation
