Working with non-standard DPI displays
With high-density displays becoming increasingly popular, some users set their display’s DPI to a higher-than-standard (i.e., >100%) value, in order to compensate for the increased pixel density to...
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Matlab GUI training seminars – Zurich, 29-30 August 2017
Advanced Matlab training courses/seminars will be presented by me (Yair) in Zürich, Switzerland on 29-30 August, 2017:August 29 (full day) – Interactive Matlab GUIAugust 30 (full day) – Advanced...
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Builtin PopupPanel widget
8 years ago I blogged about Matlab’s builtin HelpPopup widget. This control is used by Matlab to display popup-windows with help documentation, but can also be used by users to display custom...
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PlotEdit context-menu customization
Last week, a Matlab user asked whether it is possible to customize the context (right-click) menu that is presented in plot-edit mode. This menu is displayed by clicking the plot-edit (arrow) icon on...
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Toolbar button labels
I was recently asked by a client to add a few buttons labeled “1”-“4” to a GUI toolbar. I thought: How hard could that be? Simply get the toolbar’s handle from the figure, then use the builtin...
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IP address input control
A few weeks ago, a user posted a question on Matlab Answers, asking whether it is possible to implement a text input control that accepts and validates an IP address (for example, ‘192.168.1.101’)....
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Matlab objects have numerous built-in properties (some of them publicly-accessible/documented and others not, but that’s a different story). For various purposes, it is sometimes useful to attach...
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Sliders in Matlab GUI – part 2
Exactly 3 years ago I posted about various alternatives for embedding sliders in Matlab GUI. Today I will follow up on that post with a description of yet another undocumented builtin alternative –...
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Scrollable GUI panels
Matlab enables two types of GUI container types, via the Units property: fixed-size ('pixels', 'chars', etc.) and flexible ('normalized'). In many cases, we need something in between: a panel that...
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Matlab callbacks for uifigure JavaScript events
I would like to welcome back guest blogger Iliya Romm of Israel’s Technion Turbomachinery and Heat Transfer Laboratory. Today Iliya will discuss how to assign Matlab callbacks to JavaScript events in...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 1
The Matlab toolstrip (ribbon) has been around officially since R2012a, and unofficially for a couple of years earlier. Since then, I blogged about the toolstrip only rarely (example). I believe the...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 2 (ToolGroup App)
A while ago I posted the first of my planned miniseries on the Matlab toolstrip (ribbon). Today I will expand that post by discussing how toolstrips can be added to Matlab GUIs. This post will remain...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 3 (basic customization)
In the previous post I showed how we can create custom Matlab apps. In such apps, the toolstrip is very often an important part. Today I continue my miniseries on toolstrips. Toolstrips can be a bit...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 4 (control customization)
In a previous post I showed how we can create custom Matlab app toolstrips. Toolstrips can be a bit complex to develop so I’m trying to proceed slowly, with each post in the miniseries building on the...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 5 (icons)
In a previous post I showed how we can create custom Matlab app toolstrips. Toolstrips can be a bit complex to develop so I’m trying to proceed slowly, with each post in the miniseries building on the...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 6 (complex controls)
In previous posts I showed how we can create custom Matlab app toolstrips using simple controls such as buttons and checkboxes. Today I will show how we can incorporate more complex controls into our...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 7 (selection controls)
In previous posts I showed how we can create custom Matlab app toolstrips using controls such as buttons, checkboxes, sliders and spinners. Today I will show how we can incorporate even more complex...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 8 (galleries)
In previous posts I showed how we can create custom Matlab app toolstrips using various controls (buttons, checkboxes, drop-downs, lists etc.). Today I will show how we can incorporate gallery panels...
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Matlab toolstrip – part 9 (popup figures)
In previous posts I showed how we can create custom Matlab app toolstrips using various controls. Today I will show how we can incorporate popup forms composed of Matlab figures into our Matlab...
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Improving graphics interactivity
Matlab release R2018b added the concept of axes-specific toolbars and default axes mouse interactivity. Plain 2D plot axes have the following default interactions enabled by default: PanInteraction,...
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