Why am I unable to create a uimenu with the title "remove"?

To reproduce this issue, type the following at the MATLAB command prompt:

f =uimenu(figure(1),'Label','remove')

Note that no menu item "remove" appears in the menubar of the figure. Now enter the following:

f =uimenu(figure(1),'Label','Remove')

Note that a menubar item "Remove" appears as expected.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

The strings 'remove', 'default', and 'factory' are special strings in Handle Graphics. The purpose of these strings is discussed in Section 6 of the Handle Graphics and Properties Guide:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/index.html

If a string of a uicontrol or label of a uimenu needs to be set to one of these special strings, prepend a backslash (\) to the string as shown in the example below

f =uimenu(figure(1),'Label','\remove')