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- Antonio (18 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 (255 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 (394 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 (686 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 (688 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 (689 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 (706 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 (707 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 (755 days 19 hours ago): this save me a lot of time, thank you very much!
- Yair Altman (1077 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 (1077 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 (1112 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 (1229 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 (1229 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 (1461 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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38 relevant articles found: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
Tags: Desktop, GUI, Java, JIDE
54 Comments
Tags: Desktop, GUI, Java, JIDE
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Setting desktop tab completions
The Matlab desktop’s Command-Window tab-completion can be customized for user-defined functions
Customizing Matlab’s Workspace table
The Matlab Desktop’s Workspace pane table can be customized, as described here
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
Tags: Desktop, HTML, Java, Undocumented feature
7 Comments
Tags: Desktop, HTML, 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.
Categories: Desktop, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java
Tags: Desktop, Editor, FindJObj, Java, UIInspect
50 Comments
Tags: Desktop, Editor, FindJObj, Java, UIInspect
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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.
Categories: Desktop, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java
Tags: Desktop, Editor, Java, keyboard
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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
Tags: Desktop, Editor, Java, keyboard
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Tags: Desktop, Editor, Java, keyboard
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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
Tags: Desktop, FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame, uitools
32 Comments
Tags: Desktop, FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame, uitools
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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:
Categories: Desktop, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java
Tags: Desktop, Editor, Java, keyboard, UIInspect
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Tags: Desktop, Editor, Java, keyboard, UIInspect
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