MATLAB GUI developers often want to have a mini-spreadsheet in their GUI. This can be done with a new widget added to the set of controls available in GUIDE. Now with UITABLE you can add that… read more >>

Sometimes you want something to update in MATLAB on a regular schedule. Timer objects can do that for you. We first introduced this for test and measurement applications, but it has since been moved… read more >>

Bob's pick this week is IconEditor v1.4 by Elmar Tarajan. This tool could improve your MATLAB workflow more than you might think. Let me explain.   If you follow the MATLAB Desktop... read more >>

The new MATLAB contest is up and running.

Here is the challenge. Given a board with numbered pins, your job is to connect each pin to all other pins with the same number. Thus in the diagram above,… read more >>

When MATLAB throws an error, if you are in a function, you will end up at the base workspace and lose access to the variables as they were in the function when the error was thrown. This makes it… read more >>

Bob's pick this week is Files Under Folders (FUF) by Francesco di Pierro.   Have you ever misplaced a file? Suppose you know the extension (type) but forgot what you called it or where... read more >>

This short video covers the difference between a “structure of arrays” and an “array of… read more >>

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Jiro’s pick this week is RENVAR by Duane Hanselman.
 
Imagine that you defined a variable:
oldVar… read more >>

There are three inputs to every automatically generated callback from GUIDE:
function edit1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
A common question that I am asked is “What is the handles… read more >>

You may have noticed some recent changes in the format of this blog. Here’s what to expect on a regular basis – two topics per week.   On Tuesdays Doug will provide MATLAB... read more >>