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Creating a Flight Tracking Dashboard, Part 3: Using Modular Application Development Principles to Assemble the Dashboard
Are you ready to take your app building skills to the next level? This article walks through an advanced workflow for...

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A guide to themes for chart creators and app builders
This week's Graphics and App Building blog article guides chart authors and app builders through the process of designing for a ...

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A Guide to Themes for Chart Creators and App Builders
The long-awaited dark theme is now available in MATLAB R2025a. This article serves as a guide for designing charts and apps...

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Is there such a thing as MATLAB Markdown
In addition to recommendations to use a Live Script, starting in R2025a the MATLAB editor supports Markdown notation in addition...

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How to set figure size in 2025a
Thanks for mentioning this. It's being looked into. In the meantime, exportgraphics and copygraphics have new (R2025a) prope...

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How to create an embedded progress bar in app designer, Matlab R2019a?
Here's a step by step guide to creating an embedded progress bar https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/750314-progres...

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fill area between two polar curves
@Star Strider asked, "Note to MathWorks: Can we have a patch for polar coordinate systems when you have time to implement it?" ...

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Changing GUI figure icon
The Icon property has been available in a uifigure since since R2020b and it became available in regular figures in R2025a. f...

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Matlab mlapp gui auto minimises once folder selected using uigetdir() command is there any way to resotre main gui once folder selection done.
This has been fixed in R2025a. Focus now returns to the app that called uigetdir after the dialog is closed. The fix is also av...

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How do I control where focus goes after uigetfile dialog is dismissed
This has been fixed in R2025a. Focus now returns to the app that called uigetfile or uisetcolor after the dialog is closed. The...

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Uigetfile will make app be behind another windows.
Thanks for reporting the problem. This has been fixed in R2025a. Focus now returns to the app that called uigetfile after t...

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Shedding some light on dark theme
Are you a dark mode enthusiast or are you curious about how it’s shaping MATLAB graphics? Check out the latest article in the MA...

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Dark Theme for Plots and Apps
Guest Writer: Abby Skofield We're excited to welcome Abby Skofield back to the blog!  Abby has been at the forefront...

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MATLAB now generates code when you interact with figures
The new figure toolstrip in R2025a was designed from multiple feedback cycles with MATLAB users. See the latest article in the ...

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Designing the New Figure Toolstrip Around User Experience
Guest Writer: Travis Roderick Travis joined MathWorks in 2013, bringing experience from previous roles in software...

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MATLAB's new Figure Container
The MATLAB R2025a release gave figures a makeover. @Brian Knolhoff, a developer on the Figure Infrastructure and Services team,...

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Introducing the Tabbed Figure Container
Guest Writer: Brian Knolhoff Brian is a software engineer on the Figure Infrastructure and Services team at MathWorks....

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Change color of binscatter plot
binscatter uses a colormap to show densities. Setting binscatter to a single color would defeate the purpose of the function be...

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Colour background for polar axes
In MATLAB R2025a (and later), patch and surface objects are supported in polaraxes; so is dark theme. R2025a pax = polaraxes...

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Cannot close figure using CloseFunctionRequest
The CloseRequestFcn defines what to do when someone tries to close the figure. If you override the CloseRequestFcn then instead...

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sprintf vs. compose performance for large arrays on macOS
The execution below shows very different results than what's reported in the question. Note that I did some refactoring as to n...

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Dynamic filepath for sftp not allowed
The question is refering to the dir function for SFTP or FTP servers. https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.io.sftp...

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Monitor Gamma Calibration (manual and grayscale)
I believe this describes your setup; please correct me if I'm wrong. You sent grayscale RGB values from MATLAB to your monito...

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Plans for supporting "imageshow" in uifigures & app builder?
imageshow can already be used in uifigures and apps. imageshow must be parented to a Viewer object and the Viewer object can be...

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Want insider info on R2025a graphics and app building features?
The Graphics and App Building Blog just launched its first article on R2025a features, authored by Chris Portal, the director of...

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Plotting a vertical line using xline with a value
new_t_val is symbolic. As the error message indicates, xline expects to recieve numeric, datetime, categorical, or duration val...

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Introducing the New Graphics and App Building System in MATLAB R2025a
Guest Writer: Chris Portal Chris Portal serves as director of engineering for the MATLAB graphics and app building teams,...

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Differences between figure and uifigure (R2025a onward)
General purpose of uifigure and figure Figures created using the figure function are configured for data exploration and visual...

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How do I dock figures next to the editor by default ?
Starting in MATLAB R2025a, figures created by the figure command appear by default in a figure containter. The set(groot,'Defa...

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In App Designer is it possible to plot lines on top of UI components?
> In App Designer is it possible to plot lines on top of UI components? Lines can cross over text layers but other UI component...

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