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Another Command Window text color hack
Matlab’s Command Window text is notorious for its boring black & white appearance when sending output via the built-in fprintf or disp commands. Back in 2009, I explained the undocumented ability...
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Listbox layout customization
I haven’t written on listboxes in a long while, and since I’ve recently posted on related controls (editbox, combo-box), I thought of following up with an article on customizing Matlab listbox layout....
View ArticlePerformance: accessing handle properties
Graphic handle propertiesThere are several ways to access (read or update) Handle Graphics object properties. The simplest (and documented) way is to use the built-in get and set functions on the HG...
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sprintfc – undocumented helper function
Every now and then I discover a useful built-in Matlab function, often by bumping into them within the m-code of standard functions. Such was the case, for example, of the ismembc function, that I...
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Plotly graphs
I would like to welcome Chris Parmer of plot.ly, who will describe the integration of Plotly graphs and charts in Matlab. Unlike the open-source JFreeChart and Waterloo plotting libraries that were...
View ArticleClass object creation performance
Matlab’s Class Object System (MCOS) is a powerful way to develop maintainable, modular, reusable code using a modern Object Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigm. Unfortunately, using OOP in Matlab...
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Accessing private object properties
Some time ago, I needed to modify a property value of a class object. The problem was that this property was declared as private and for some reason my client could not modify the originating classdef...
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2013 perspective & plans for 2014
With 2013 behind us and a fresh 2014 ahead, it is time again for a short look at this website’s achievements so far, and plans for the future.I started this blog nearly five years ago, thinking it...
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MathWorks blogs facelift
For those of you who have not noticed, MathWorks has made a very nice facelift to its official blogs section on Matlab Central (there are also some unofficial internal blogs, but they are unfortunately...
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Serializing/deserializing Matlab data
Last year I wrote an article on improving the performance of the save function. The article discussed various ways by which we can store Matlab data on disk. However, in many cases we are interested in...
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Assessing Java object size in Matlab
Have you noticed that all Java object references are displayed as using 0 bytes in the Matlab Workspace browser and the whos function? This is not a bug, but in fact a deliberate design decision, in...
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Undocumented button highlighting
One of my consulting clients approached me yesterday with a mystery: In his GUIDE-generated GUI, one of the buttons had a bluish tint, and no obvious property seemed to control this or to differentiate...
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Improving Simulink performance
A few days ago I happened to speak with a colleague about Simulink run-time performance, and we discussed various ideas for simulation speed-up. This topic is very important to MathWorks, as evidenced...
View ArticleExplicit multi-threading in Matlab – part 1
One of the limitations of Matlab already recognized by the community, is that it does not provide the users direct access to threads without the PCT (Parallel Computing Toolbox). For example, letting...
View ArticleExplicit multi-threading in Matlab – part 2
Last week, I explained how we can start asynchronous Java threads to run in parallel to the main Matlab processing. Today I continue the series by examining .Net threads. Next week I will discuss C++...
View ArticleExplicit multi-threading in Matlab – part 3
In the past weeks, I explained how we can start asynchronous Java threads to run in parallel to the main Matlab processing using Java and Dot-Net threads. Today I continue by examining C/C++ threads....
View ArticleExplicit multi-threading in Matlab – part 4
In the past weeks, I explained how we can start asynchronous Java threads to run in parallel to the main Matlab processing using Java, Dot-Net and C++ POSIX threads. Today I conclude the mini-series by...
View ArticleUndocumented feature list
Three years ago I posted an article on Matlab’s undocumented feature function. feature is a Matlab function that enables access to undocumented internal Matlab functionality. Most of this functionality...
View ArticleJSON-Matlab integration
I would like to once again welcome guest blogger Mark Mikofski. Mark has written here last year about JGIT-Matlab integration (p.s., in the recently-released R2014a, MathWorks added GIT support to...
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uicontextmenu performance
I would like to introduce guest blogger Robert Cumming, an independent contractor based in the UK who has recently worked on certification of the newest advanced civil aircraft. Today Robert will...
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