Documentation conflict for using UIAxes as a parent for imshow?

I have been building an app using app designer that displays an image in a UIAxes. During some troubleshooting, I noticed a conflict in the documentation about how to use imshow in this context:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_guis/graphics-support-in-app-designer.html

In this documentation, there is an example showing how you can parent an imshow call to a UIAxes.

However in the reference page for imshow:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/imshow.html

Under the parent property it says "...Do not specify a UIAxes as the parent axes."

Which one of these is correct? If we should not use UIAxes as the parent, why is that?

[Adam]

I imagine the 2nd one is old documentation that wasn't updated. If it works it works though, is the simple test. In the beginning UIAxes only supported a limited subset of functionality and images where not one of them in the very first iteration, if I remember correctly so I would guess that comment about 'parent' is a legacy of that.

[David Alston]

Yea that makes sense. I have seen older forum posts where people ran into that. Ended up fixing what I needed to, so no issue there.

Thanks!

[Adam]

There is a link at the bottom of help pages to give feedback on things like this though so they can fix it as it probably just slipped through the net with no-one noticing. Oddly, it starts off with asking you 'How useful was this information?', but whatever rating you give you will then be asked if you have further feedback and I have used that in the past to report omissions or mistakes in the help.

[David Alston]

Ah ok, yea just submitted some feedback so they can fix it.

Answer 1

[Prabhan Purwar]

Hi,

I have brought this issue to the notice of our team. They will investigate the matter further.

Thanks for notifying.