Jim Hokanson

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I'm an assistant professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin. My background is in neural engineering and my goal is to help women with pelvic floor dysfunction.

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Python, C, MATLAB
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English
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waiting for current folder viewer to expand
I ended up going with the hack, sort of. Two things of importance: 1) I iterate through using the absolute row. Before expansi...

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issue opening old apps in appdesigner
I have an app that I believe is from MATLAB 2020b. When I try to open it in appdesigner in MATLAB 2023 or 2024, I am getting the...

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Disable middle mouse button interaction with axes
Is it possible to disable the middle mouse button interacting with axes? The two solutions I've seen so far are: 1) disable al...

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Trying to create a scrollable uifigure but unsure how to reference positions
I'm having a hard time understanding how MATLAB handles content that is larger than the size of a figure when the figure's scrol...

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Problem getting old desktop layout using 2025a
In old versions of MATLAB (pre 2025a) I could put the editor to the right of the command window, with the command window in the ...

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unpause from a uifigure
I'm used to using pause to run through a loop with plots and to pause until hitting return. Something like this: for i = 1:100 ...

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how do I change the default open behavior to not be a class property
How do I change the default behavior in the MATLAB editor so that selecting text and opening it (selecting "open") doesn't go th...

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How does MATLAB resolve a function handle with multiple levels of indexing
Imagine that I have classes class1 and class2 and that class2 has a property parent that points to an instance of class1. Class1...

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too many outputs for ginput - documentation error?
I would like to get only the x-coordinates for ginput. I was surprised to discover that ginput returns X and Y coordinates when ...

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How to permanently hide the toolbar for an axes even after replotting
I've done a lot of searching and I can't seem to find a way to disable showing the axes toolbar. There are some options that wor...

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How can I import live data from labchart into Matlab?
The Labchart server code I wrote can do this but it relies on Windows drivers. The streaming bit is also a bit messy because to ...

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How to fix table display/alignment in command window
It appears that the table display algorithm assumes monospaced fonts. Changing the "Dekstop Text Font" (Home tab => Preferences ...

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How to fix table display/alignment in command window
MATLAB seems to format printing of tables poorly on macs. Here's a simple example using 2023b on my M1 mac: dt = datetime('now...

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How can I import python libraries inside a python script that am calling from Matlab?
Was just working on some Python/MATLAB things and saw this question. The issue is that you are making a system call that is comp...

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error in prctile function?
I'm creating my own percentile function and wanted to compare it to the prctile function available in MATLAB. I am pretty sure ...

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enable context menu for specific cell or item in uitable or uilistbox in matlab
Edit: For R2023b and newer the solution by Jasmine (see answer below) is the way to go ----------------------------------------...

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enable context menu for specific cell or item in uitable or uilistbox in matlab
This is a cross posting from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70468931/enable-context-menu-for-specific-cell-or-item-in-uit...

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keep focus in command window
You could also create a function that does what you want. In response to Walter's answer, I don't want to always work at avoidin...

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How to remove single quotes around the string
Since I stumbled across this when looking at ways of copying variables, specifically cell arrays of strings, from Matlab into Ex...

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Hide/Disable 'File' menu in Matlab figure window
Here's what I needed: h = findall(gcf, 'Tag', 'figMenuFile') set(h,'visible','off') All the other menus appear to be tagged i...

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Error in fmincon: undefined getIpOptions
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waiting for current folder viewer to expand
I'm writing some code to expand the current folder viewer and I've found that expanding the folders, equivalent to clicking on t...

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function signature for package function
So apparently there were two issues. First, these json files must be placed in the same folder that gets added to the path. So...

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function signature for package function
Well I just hit "cancel" instead of "submit" so here's a short version :/ I can't get functionSignatures.json to work for the f...

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trouble reading ordinal categorical variable with missing value using readtable
I am trying to read an Excel file that has an empty cell for a categorical ordered column. For example something like {0 5 [] 3 ...

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Refresh legend from the command line
I've found hiding and showing the legend works. ax = gca; %might be different ... legend(ax,'hide'); legend(ax,'show');

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error removing subplot listeners manager
After plotting some subplots I start to move around the axes (change position values). Normally this works fine but I'm running ...

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getpixelposition vs OuterPosition of figure
I'm getting different values from getpixelposition and the OuterPosition of the figure ... get(gcf,'OuterPosition') ans = ...

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thread safety of mx mex functions
Although I'm aware that mx mex functions are generally considered not to be thread safe, it is unclear to me if this applies to ...

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Deploying a standalone application to computer with no install privileges
I ended up switching to Octave for this project. Octave can be run without installation. The zip download is about 400 MB which ...

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