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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 of...

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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...

9 months ago

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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....

9 months ago

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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...

9 months ago | 1

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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...

10 months ago | 1

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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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Accessing Input Arguments in App Designer
> is this the correct way to access the input argument (outside of the startup function)? Yes. The Startup Tasks and Input ...

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UI scaling changes from latest 2025a prerelease to official 2025a release
There's a known issue using Accessibility Text Scaling on Windows that affects UI Components in R2025a and some earlier releases...

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Plot browser in R2025a?
Indeed the plot browser is gone in R2025a. However, many of the features that were in plot browser have moved to the Property I...

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Labeling Bars Made Easy
Guest Writer: Benjamin Kraus Ben has been a Software Engineer on the MATLAB Graphics and Charting Team since 2015....

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Why does this code run (20 to 100)% slower on R2025a compared to R2024b?
Hello @Mateusz, I ran your demo in R2024b and R2025a and can confirm a bit of a slowdown in 25a. Please contact tech support ...

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Making even prettier graphs
Guest Writer: Abby Skofield We're excited to welcome Abby Skofield back to the blog! Abby revisits the classic...

10 months ago

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How to change the size of bar in bar3 plot?
The problem is that bar3 does not have an input argument for x coordinates and there's no easy way to update the x coordinates o...

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How can I pass an image to a figure ?
Use image and specify the x and y limits instead of using polyshape. % Generate a wood grain pattern (example) grain = rand(30...

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How do I put more than one patternCustom plot into a figure when it seems like neither subplot or tiledlayout will work?
How do I put more than one patternCustom plot into a figure? This is tricky because patternCustom does not have a parent argume...

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How can I draw a circular trend line in a heat map?
This solution plots a contour line that was computed at a specific level using smoothed data and is plotted on top of the origin...

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Remove ".mlapp file has been modified outside of App Designer" prompt
As Cris mentioned above, your best bet to address this issue is by contacting tech support. It would be helpful to include the f...

11 months ago | 0

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I'm trying to bring m_gshhs_f(....) in front of my plot.
These files belong to a 3rd party toolbox which I found here: https://kml.deltares.nl/docs/OpenEarthHtmlDocs/blue/applications/m...

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