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MATLAB: displaying markup (HTML or other format)

Answer 1

+4 A:

One alternative is to display the table in a graphics window using the UITABLE control.

EDIT: Even though this is only an alternative (not a solution) to the problem in the question, I thought I'd include a sample for anyone who may be interested in this option:

hFigure = figure('Position',[100 100 300 220]);
hTable = uitable(hFigure,'Data',rand(10,3),...
                 'ColumnName',{'X' 'Y' 'Z'},...
                 'Position',[20 20 260 180]);

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gnovice 2009-12-14 21:21:43

+1 -- interesting... not what i'm looking for, but i'll file it away for future reference.

Jason S 2009-12-14 21:22:44

Answer 2

+3 A:

Use the Java Swing component inside a MATLAB figure, precisely JEditorPane using MATLAB's javacomponent() function. JEditorPane supports a good subset of HTML.

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Here is a code sample:

mytext  = '<html><body><table border="1"><tr><th>Month</th><th>Savings</th></tr><tr><td>January</td><td>$100</td></tr></table></body></html>';

hfig    = figure();
je      = javax.swing.JEditorPane( 'text/html', mytext );
jp      = javax.swing.JScrollPane( je );

[hcomponent, hcontainer] = javacomponent( jp, [], hfig );
set( hcontainer, 'units', 'normalized', 'position', [0,0,1,1] );

%# Turn anti-aliasing on ( R2006a, java 5.0 )
java.lang.System.setProperty( 'awt.useSystemAAFontSettings', 'on' );
je.putClientProperty( javax.swing.JEditorPane.HONOR_DISPLAY_PROPERTIES, true );
je.putClientProperty( com.sun.java.swing.SwingUtilities2.AA_TEXT_PROPERTY_KEY, true );

je.setFont( java.awt.Font( 'Arial', java.awt.Font.PLAIN, 13 ) );

EDIT: see the discussion of this solution here,

Mikhail 2009-12-14 22:33:23

+1 -- thanks! -

Jason S 2009-12-14 22:38:37

Answer 3

A:

I ended up doing what I didn't quite want to do, namely to write HTML to a file. It requires me to open it in a browser and refresh every time I run my script, but that's not too bad for what I needed in the short term.

Jason S 2009-12-14 22:39:38

If you don't want to write to a file you can use the text:// protocol. web('text://<html><body>My html text...</body></html')

Mike Katz 2009-12-15 13:29:07

Answer 4

+6 A:

You can display the HTML text in a PopupPanel as explained here: http://UndocumentedMatlab.com/blog/customizing-help-popup-contents/

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Or in an integrated browser control that points to your HTML file or HTML text as explained here: http://UndocumentedMatlab.com/blog/gui-integrated-browser-control/

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Yair Altman 2009-12-15 09:09:46

Yair, nice to see you at StackOverflow

Mikhail 2009-12-15 11:54:26

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