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Figure window full screen from live script editor not working
I believe your workflow is to generate the figures in the mlx file and then to open the figure window using the interactive butt...

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Managing App Closure: Control When Users Can Exit Your MATLAB App
The topic recently came up in a MATLAB Central Answers forum thread, where community members discussed how to programmatically c...

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How to show variables in the workspace of an custom UI component ( App Designer) while debugging?
I'm having trouble envisioning what you're describing. The property inspector can be closed using the following command. insp...

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I found a colormap problem with Matlab 2025a
Thanks for reporting this and for the troubleshooting. We were able to reproduce the issue and are working on a fix.

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Using hold to generate scatter-histogram in for loop
There are two approaches to creating a scatterhistogram while using a loop. The first is to collect the data within the loop ...

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How to Change the first letter of a string to capital case and the rest to lowercase
Here's an approach that uses lower and regexprep. str = {'Vidin','sliven','rUSE','pErNiK','LOVECH'}; strTitle = regexprep(lowe...

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yyaxis limit for lines in one graph
Specify Line Style and Color in axes properties instead of in plot(__) Starting in R2023a, you can set the line style and line ...

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mlapp scaling/zoom errors
The zoom issue you are describing has been fixed for the R2025a release and is avalable in the R2025a pre-release. There is no ...

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Transparency violation error only in new desktop and when a breakpoint is set in another function.
Transparency in MATLAB code refers to MATLAB's ability to identify all variables by scanning the code while ignoring comments, c...

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Casting Shadows and Inverse Stereographic Projections
Guest Writer: Eric Ludlam Joining us again is Eric Ludlam, development manager of the MATLAB charting team....

10 months ago

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The plotting function implicit3 fails to render under certain conditions. Notably, for sphere larger than a certain amount.
I believe the problem is recreated when the axes limits are not set. In this case, the ImplicitFunctionSurface is larger than th...

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"plot" versus "text" command
Text's property AffectAutoLimits is set to off by default. This means that the axes limits will not update if a text object is ...

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Casting Shadows
Guest Writer: Eric Ludlam Joining us again is Eric Ludlam, development manager of the MATLAB charting team....

10 months ago

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Converting from Cartesian rates to spherical rates.
To convert the three Cartesian velocity components to spherical velocity values, you can follow these steps. I assume East is ...

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Implementation details on surfnorm()
I recently looked into this topic and here's what I found. The surfnorm algorithm uses bicubic interpolation as defined in the...

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Dark mode power savings vs. human behavior
Do you boast about the energy savings you racking up by using dark mode while stashing your energy bill savings away for an exot...

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How do I make and export a brushed area from a figure
Turn on brushing To turn on brushing, press the brush icon in the axes toolbar or called the brush command: brush on. Intera...

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Alphabetical Sorting (case insensitive)
> I want to assort an array of words in alphabetical order with case insensitive sorting A = ["help" ; "MATLAB" ; "anyTIME" ; "...

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Appdesigner: updating the value of Text area
See drawnow function StartButtonPushed(app, event) app.val = app.PromptTextArea.Value; app.StartButton.Enable = "of...

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Replacement for undocumented function feature('setround')
> Is there a documented MATLAB replacement for the undocumented function feature(‘setround’)? There currently is not a document...

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Alias blanks in the cell array as a string.
As the OP found, the solution is to include multiple delimiters strsplit(t,'\t', 'CollapseDelimiters',false) And as others hav...

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Group Data for one Legend in Figure of Multiple SubPlots
Here are the key concepts to achieve this Use tiledlayout instead of subplot. Tiledlayout does a much better job at hosting gl...

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How to read numeric data with different number of columns
Is this what you are looking for? file = "data.txt"; t = readtable(file, 'ReadRowNames',true,"Delimiter",'\t') The data file...

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Understand values differences between smooth and smoothdata functions
> Is there a difference in window calculation between smooth and smoothdata for 'lowess' method These two functions compute the...

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Unable to see uifigure object properties
Let's see if I understand your workflow. Please correct me if this summary is incorrect. rbBar and rbLine are defined in a fun...

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Remove NaNs from uitable Matlab App
Can a UITable show missing values or NaNs as empty? Currently there is not an option to show missing or NaN values as empty in ...

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MATLAB Community gets shout-out in pod cast
Three former MathWorks employees, Steve Wilcockson, David Bergstein, and Gareth Thomas, joined the ArrayCast pod cast to discuss...

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Violin Plot: A Tool For Visualizing Distributions
Guest Writer: Baldvin Einarsson Baldvin is a software engineer in the Statistics and Machine Learning...

12 months ago

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how to add geoplot scatter plot custom icon overlays?
If you're using MATLAB R2024b or later and have the Mapping Toolbox, use the new geoiconchart. lat = [37.7749, 34.0522, 40.7128...

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