Matlab R2014b with OS X Yosemite Issue

I am trying to use the plane program and keep getting the following error when I run it:

Error using figure
There is no numb property on the Figure class.

Error in pplane8 (line 398)
ppset = figure('name','pplane8 Setup','numb','off',...

Any ideas on what I should do? I've tried two separate Macs on Yosemite and it does the same thing.

[Andrew]

Austin, did you ever fix all these issues? I am coming across the same problem, and even after fixing the 'numb' and 'user' problems, there are still issues. Was just wondering if you had the code of working pplane8 for 2014b?

[Joakim]

I also had this issue, but I seemed to make it work. Other than changing all 'numb' to 'NumberTitle' and 'user' to 'UserData' there is one more thing.

• Change all "if notice" to "if notice ~= 0"
• 2x "if dud.notice & ...", change that to "if dud.notice ~= 0 && ..."
• and one "if dud.notice" to "if dud.notice ~= 0"It looks ugly but it seems to work. I got it to simulate

[SHUHAO CAO]

Thanks Joakim, it works for me.

[Samuel Dupree]

I'm attempting to run pplane8.m on my MacBook Pro. I'm running Mac OS X ver. 10.10.3 (Yosemite) using MATLAB R2014b. I've applied all the fixes discussed in this thread, but the code gives me the following messages in the Command Window:

>> pplane8 Error using figure While setting the 'Number' property of Figure: Value must be a scalar double or the empty matrix Error in pplane8 (line 5097) ppxy = figure('number','off',...

Error in pplane8 (line 5078) hh = pplane8('plotxyfig',type,gcf);

Error while evaluating Menu Callback

>>

I've attached a copy of the code to this note.

Please advise.

Sam Dupree.

[Walter Roberson]

You missed converting 'number' on the line

ppxy = figure('number','off',...
    'tag','pplane8','visible','off');

[Samuel Dupree]

I'm not sure what I need to replace 'number' with. In addition to the error I'm getting on line 5097, I'm also getting an error on line 5078 per the following error message:

_Error using figure While setting the 'Number' property of Figure: Value must be a scalar double or the empty matrix Error in pplane8 (line 5097) ppxy = figure('number','off',...

Error in pplane8 (line 5078) hh = pplane8('plotxyfig',type,gcf);

Error while evaluating Menu Callback_

Please advise.

[Walter Roberson]

Change the 'number', 'off' to 'numbertitle', 'off'

[Samuel Dupree]

Walter, thank you the clarification. I took your advice and made the change, but I'm still getting errors. The errors appear to arise when I attempt to plot x vs. t, y .vs. t or both x and y vs. t on the same plot). The messages I get are:

Undefined function 'real' for input arguments of type 'matlab.ui.Figure'. Error in int2str (line 12) x = real(x); Error in pplane8 (line 5099) name = ['pplane8 t-plot # ',int2str(ppxy)];

Error in pplane8 (line 5078) hh = pplane8('plotxyfig',type,gcf);

Error while evaluating Menu Callback

I've attached a current copy of pplane8 with all the updates discussed in this thread.

Please advise.

[Walter Roberson]

The revised version did not happen to get included.

[Walter Roberson]

Okay, so this is something that affects R2014b and later, and the solution to it involves a change that is not backwards compatible.

On line 5099 where there is currently

name = ['pplane8 t-plot # ',int2str(ppxy)];

change that line to be

name = ['pplane8 t-plot # ',int2str(get(ppxy,'Number'))];

Note that this is 'Number', not 'NumberTitle'.

[Samuel Dupree]

Walter,

Made the change for line 5099 and it works. Thank you. One last though, what was it that caused you to see that I needed to replace ppxy with get(ppxy,'Number')?

Ssm Dupree.

[Walter Roberson]

I looked at the code and saw that it was trying to create a string containing the figure number. I looked at the documentation for Figure Properties and saw that there is now a Number property that returns the figure number. So get() of the Number is what was needed. The rest of the time was spent searching through the code to be sure that the problem did not occur elsewhere.

[Samuel Dupree]

Walter,

Thank you for the explanation. I gratefully appreciate it. This clears things up for me.

Again, thanks.

Sam Dupree.

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Austin - try changing the numb to the full property name NumberTitle. So line 398 of pplane8 would become

 ppset = figure('name','pplane8 Setup','NumberTitle','off',...
     'tag','pplane8','visible','off',...
     'UserData',ud);

Note the change also from user to UserData. See figure window properties for more details.

[Austin Baird]

That got the application to start, but now I get the following error when I try to proceed:

Error using figure

There is no numb property on the Figure class.

Error in pplane8 (line 2019) ppdisp = figure('name','pplane8 Display',...

Error while evaluating UIControl Callback

[Geoff Hayes]

Austin - that is the same error message as before so the same fix must be applied.

 ppdisp = figure('name','pplane8 Display',...
           'NumberTitle','off',...
           'Interruptible','on',...
           'visible','off',...
           'tag','pplane8');

There are a couple of other places in the code that will require the same fix, so you may as well do a find and replace.

You will often encounter this type of problem when using code written for older versions of MATLAB, so there could very well be other lines in this function that will require similar fixes.

[Austin Baird]

What would be the fix for:

Error in pplane8 (line 1696) aud = get(dud.axes,'user');

I'm going through and messing with it trying to update it, but some of the terms I'm not sure what they need to become...

[Geoff Hayes]

It is most likely is UserData (see http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/axes-properties.html). If you have a property that you are unsure of, then check the list of properties for that which is the closest match.

[Daniel Sierra]

Any solutions for the last issue of Austin?

I mean the follow Error:

Error in pplane8 (line 1696) aud = get(dud.axes,'user');

[Geoff Hayes]

Try typing just

 get(dud.axes)

to see which properties are available. If you don't see something for 'user' then you may have to use UserData.

[Daniel Sierra]

Thanks Geoff it worked! i also had to make a few changes that i haven't read from this forum but so far it seems to work just fine!

Answer 2

[Hugh Harvey]

Hi, I have gone through and made all these changes to Pplane - Please see link for updated version: http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/61636-pplane

[mohammadreza naghimmaramsadeh]

so beautiful.thanks

Answer 3

[Jakob]

Very good work everyone. The pplane-tool is extremely useful! Great you made it work again in newer Matlab!! Cannot give enough kudos ;-)