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CheckboxList
Several years ago I blogged about using a checkbox-tree in Matlab. A few days ago there was a question on the Matlab Answers forum asking whether something similar can be done with Matlab listboxes,...
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Customizing listbox/combobox items
Last week I wrote about using a variety of techniques to customize listbox items with an attached checkbox icon. Some of these methods used a standard Matlab listbox uicontrol, others used other...
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Customizing combobox popups
Last week I explained how we can use display custom items in a standard Matlab combobox (popup/dropdown), using its underlying Java component. Today I will show how we can use this Java component for...
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Transparency in uicontrols
I would like to welcome back guest blogger Robert Cumming, an independent UK contractor who developed a commercial class-based Matlab GUI framework. Today, Robert will highlight how he customized the...
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New book: Accelerating MATLAB Performance
I am pleased to announce that after three years of research and hard work, following my first book on Matlab-Java programming, my new book “Accelerating MATLAB Performance” is finally published. The...
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Unorthodox checkbox usage
A few weeks ago, Robert Cumming explained how we can use a Matlab uicontrol’s CData property to provide an optical illusion of a transparent background. Today I will discuss another usage of this...
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Customizing Matlab uipanels
The major innovation in Matlab release R2014b was the introduction of the new handle-based graphics system (HG2). However, this release also included a few other improvements to graphics/GUI that...
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Frameless (undecorated) figure windows
All Matlab figures have a standard frame around them, consisting of a border and title bar. In some cases it could be useful to present a figure window, displaying only the contents without the border...
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Auto-completion widget
Do you ever get a feeling when designing a Matlab GUI, that existing components/controls are simply not enough to achieve the desired functionality/appearance?Such a case happened to me, when a...
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copyobj behavior change in HG2
As a followup to last-week’s post on class-object and generic data copies, I would like to welcome back guest blogger Robert Cumming, who developed a commercial Matlab GUI framework. Today, Robert will...
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Sliders in Matlab GUI
One of my consulting clients asked me last week if I knew an easy way to integrate a range (dual-knob) slider control in Matlab GUI. Today’s post is an expansion of the answer I provided him, which I...
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Some performance-tuning tips
Today’s post is about performance. My goal is to show that contrary to widespread perception, Matlab is not inherently too slow to be used for real-life programs. In fact, by taking a small amount of...
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JGraph in Matlab figures
I would like to introduce guest blogger Scott Koch. Scott is part of the development team at Eigenvector Research Inc., makers of PLS_Toolbox, a commercial chemometrics and multivariate data analysis...
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Matlab designs by Tim Smith
Matlab has undergone significant facelifts in recent years: Matlab Mobile (first introduced in 2010, with various upgrades since), R2012b’s new desktop toolstrip, various Matlab Central’s website...
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Callback functions performance
Matlab enables a variety of ways to define callbacks for asynchronous events (such as interactive GUI actions or timer invocations). We can provide a function handle, a cell-array (of function handle...
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Adding dynamic properties to graphic handles
A client recently asked me to extend one of Matlab’s built-in graphic containers (uiflowcontainer in this specific case) with automatic scrollbars that would enable the container to act as a...
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Font selection components
I’ve written here in the past about how Matlab includes multiple alternatives for color selection, plot-type selection and date selection components, that can easily be integrated in Matlab figures...
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Hyperlink text labels
It is often useful to include hyperlinked text labels in GUIs. Such labels provide single-click access to important functionality, improve branding, and are non-intrusive action controls having a lower...
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Matlab figures have a documented property called SelectionType that returns information about keypress modifiers such as or that were pressed during mouse clicks. Using this property has several...
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Graphic sizing in Matlab R2015b
I would like to introduce Daniel Dolan of Sandia National Laboratories. Dan works on a variety of data analysis projects in Matlab, and is an active lurker on MATLAB Central. Dan has a habit of finding...
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