[25603] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.27: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Apr 16 17:13:36 2004
Message-Id: <200404162109.i3GL9KnS021710@dit.mit.edu>
To: kenta@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[25602] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:09:20 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: jamous@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Hi Ken,
You report:
>What were you trying to do?
> Edit Axes Properties after starting with "matlab -tty"
>
>What's wrong:
> It works when started with "matlab", but spits out
> an error for "matlab -tty":
>
>>> ??? Error while evaluating uimenu Callback.
>
>
>??? Error using ==> propedit
>The Property Editor is not supported on this platform.
We remap the Mathwork's standard command line switches in our local launch
script, which may be confusing the issue a bit- our "matlab -tty" remaps to
their "matlab -nojvm". Our "matlab" is their "matlab -nodesktop". The "-nojvm"
switch turns off the Java Virtual Machine; "-nodesktop" turns off the Java
Desktop but leaves the JVM enabled.
I believe what is happening is that the Property Editor is written in Java
but the graph window opened by the "figure" command isn't- that would explain
why the inital window opens in both cases but the Property Editor only
works when "matlab" is used to launch.
I agree that the error is confusing and it would help if they had a clearer
error message explaining what's happening when you try to Launch the Property
Editor when "-nojvm" is in effect, but this is a fairly minor issue that I
don't think they would give high priority to.
I'll try to document this better in our local README files.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing
Software Support
