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Transparent uipanels
A well-known Matlab limitation is that component position vectors must be specified as either ‘normalized’ or some fixed-sized value, but not in combination. For example, we cannot place a button in...
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Animated busy (spinning) icon
Matlab includes a wide variety of internal widgets (GUI components) that could be very useful in our GUIs. One such widget is an animated spinning icon, which is often used by Matlab itself and...
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Matlab callbacks for Java events in R2014a
Exactly five years ago, in one of this blog’s first articles, I wrote an article explaining how to trap the standard Java Swing events in Matlab, in order to achieve much more extensive behavior...
View ArticlePlotly graphs in IPython Notebook
Last December, I hosted an article on plot.ly‘s awesome online plotting interface for Matlab. Today, I wish to welcome Andrey Dimitrov, a plot.ly engineer, who will discuss generating Plotly graphs in...
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Bar plot customizations
Bar charts are a great way to visualize data. Matlab includes the bar function that enables displaying 2D bars in several different manners, stacked or grouped (there’s also bar3 for 3D bar-charts, and...
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checkClass
Over the past few years I have shown numerous uses of Java components in Matlab, many of them built-into the Matlab environment and can be used as-is. I have been asked many times how I uncover these...
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Function call timeline profiling
Back in 2012, I wrote an article about the Matlab profiler’s undocumented functionality of storing detailed information about the function-call history, including timing information. I intended to...
View ArticleJava class access pitfalls
A few days ago I consulted to a company that wanted to integrate some of their Java code in Matlab. The Java code compiled ok and ran just fine in the Java environment, but when we wanted to use the...
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USA visit, 22-31 July 2014
I’d like to break the regular flow of technical articles, to announce that I will visit several US cities on July 22-31 to meet some clients for advanced Matlab training and consulting:July 22-24:...
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Using pure Java GUI in deployed Matlab apps
I would like to welcome repeat guest blogger Karthik Ponudurai, who has previously written here about the JTattoo look-and-feel, and about integration of Java controls’ events with Matlab callbacks....
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Class object tab completion & improper field names
I recently consulted to a very large industrial client. Following a merger/acquisition, the relevant R&D department had two development groups using different technologies: one group uses Matlab,...
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Online (web-based) Matlab
For many years I searched for a good solution for deploying Matlab applications in online web-pages. There used to be a solution over a decade ago but it was taken off the market. We could use the Java...
View ArticleProperty value change listeners
For performance reasons, it is almost always better to respond to events (asynchronously), than to continuously check a property value (synchronous polling). Therefore, if we wish to do something when...
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Inter-Matlab data transfer with memcached
Once again I welcome guest blogger Mark Mikofski. Mark has written here last year about JGIT-Matlab integration and earlier this year on JSON-Matlab integration. Today, Mark shows how to use the...
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savezip utility
A few months ago I wrote about Matlab’s undocumented serialization/deserialization functions, getByteStreamFromArray and getArrayFromByteStream. This could be very useful for both sending Matlab data...
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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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Customizing axes rulers
Over 4 years have passed since I’ve posted my scoop on Matlab upcoming new graphics system (a.k.a. HG2, Handle Graphics version 2). At that time HG2 was still far from usable, but that has changed when...
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Customizing axes part 2
Last week I explained how HG2 (in R2014b) enables us to customize the axes rulers in ways that were previously impossible in HG1 (R2014a or earlier). Today I will describe other useful undocumented...
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