Tag Archives: uicontrol

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Additional uicontrol tooltip hacks

Matlab’s uicontrol tooltips have several limitations that can be overcome using the control’s underlying Java object.

Categories: Guest bloggers, GUI, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
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Continuous slider callback

Matlab slider uicontrols do not enable a continuous-motion callback by default. This article explains how this can be achieved using undocumented features.

Categories: GUI, Java, Listeners, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
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Customizing listbox & editbox scrollbars

Matlab listbox and multi-line editbox uicontrols have pre-configured scrollbars. This article shows how they can be customized.

Categories: GUI, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
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Rich Matlab editbox contents

The Matlab editbox uicontrol does not handle HTML contents as do other uicontrols. In this article I show how this limitation can be removed.

Categories: GUI, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java, UI controls
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FindJObj GUI – display container hierarchy

The FindJObj utility can be used to present a GUI that displays a Matlab container’s internal Java components, properties and callbacks.

Categories: Figure window, GUI, Handle graphics, High risk of breaking in future versions, Java, UI controls, Undocumented feature
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GUI integrated HTML panel

Simple HTML can be presented in a Java component integrated in Matlab GUI, without requiring the heavy browser control.

Categories: GUI, Java, Low risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
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GUI integrated browser control

A fully-capable browser component is included in Matlab and can easily be incorporated in regular Matlab GUI applications. This article shows how.

Categories: Figure window, GUI, Handle graphics, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
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Customizing Matlab labels

Matlab’s text uicontrol is not very customizable, and does not support HTML or Tex formatting. This article shows how to display HTML labels in Matlab and some undocumented customizations

Categories: GUI, Handle graphics, Hidden property, Java, Low risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
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uicontrol side-effect: removing figure toolbar

Matlab’s built-in uicontrol function has a side-effect of removing the figure toolbar. This was undocumented until lately. This article describes the side-effect behavior and how to fix it.

Categories: Figure window, GUI, Low risk of breaking in future versions, Stock Matlab function, UI controls, Undocumented feature
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Setting listbox mouse actions

Matlab listbox uicontrol can be modified to detect mouse events for right-click context menus, dynamic tooltips etc.

Categories: GUI, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
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