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Modifying Matlab’s Look-and-Feel

Matlab’s entire Look-and-Feel (PLAF, or L&F) can be modified at the control or application level – this article shows how

Categories: Desktop, GUI, Low risk of breaking in future versions
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Setting desktop tab completions

The Matlab desktop’s Command-Window tab-completion can be customized for user-defined functions

Categories: Desktop, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, Undocumented feature
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setPrompt – Setting the Matlab Desktop prompt

The Matlab Desktop’s Command-Window prompt can easily be modified using some undocumented features

Categories: Desktop, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java, Listeners, Semi-documented function, Undocumented feature
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Customizing Matlab’s Workspace table

The Matlab Desktop’s Workspace pane table can be customized, as described here

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Customizing help popup contents

The built-in HelpPopup, available since Matlab R2007b, has a back-door that enables displaying arbitrary text, HTML and URL web-pages.

Categories: Desktop, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java, Undocumented feature
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Accessing the Matlab Editor

The Matlab Editor can be accessed programmatically, for a wide variety of possible uses – this article shows how.

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R2009b keyboard bindings

The new Matlab release R2009b includes the ability to customize keyboard bindings for the editor and Command Window. However, there are still some uses for the EditorMacro utility and its variants.

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EditorMacro v2 – setting Command Window key-bindings

The EditorMacro utility was extended to support built-in Matlab Editor and Command-Window actions and key-bindings. This post describes the changes and the implementation details.

Categories: Desktop, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java, Listeners
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Setting status-bar text

The Matlab desktop and figure windows have a usable statusbar which can only be set using undocumented methods. This post shows how to set the status-bar text.

Categories: Desktop, Figure window, GUI, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions
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Non-textual editor actions

The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:

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