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Jose
You will get Java exceptions if you try to create a JFrame ('adding a window to a container') so jcontrol does not allow that.

You can however, build very complex GUIs using a MATLAB figure or uipanel as parent and I hope to include tabbed panes once TWM provide full support for these. An advantage of using MATLAB containers is that you can mix and match jcontrols and MATLAB components including graphics in a single figure/panel.

Apart from using a java window, there are few restrictions. You can for example create a uipanel, add a swing JPanel to it, populate that with a JScrollPane and add a JTree to it along with a set of JButtons in the JPanel.
Regards
Malcolm

Spencer
Great. I have had a few enquiries about TDT. How about sharing your importer?
As far as those errors are concerned - if they are in sigTOOL, please supply details.
Regards
Malcolm

Ritesh
See the undocumented MATLAB uitab and uitabgroup functions for tabbed panes
For widgets, I may have misunderstood. Jcontrols can be positioned using normalized units 0 to 1. MATLAB then does the work.

Ryan
It is easy to add more parameters. Just edit the 'names' cell array in the EditStructureGUI function in menu_InterfaceTo_wave_clus.m. E.g.

names={'stdmin',...
    'stdmax',...
    ................
    ................
    'max_spk',...
    'max_clus'};

Remember though, that these values are reset via set_parameters_simulation.m when you load a new channel so editing set_parameters_simulation.m may be more convenient.

As for batch processing, that could probably be included if there were enough demand but there are a lot of other things on the TODO list.

Flor,
You would need to write an import function that would create a MAT file containing the variables required by sigTOOL. The Programmer Guide contains details
Regards
ML

Xiping
I think I see what is happening. The option to export data in PDF, TIF etc, and also to Send data to Excel, Sigmaplot etc is available in a sigTOOL result view showing e.g. averages. The GUI manual gives details.
It is not supported in a data view which is the view you appear to be clicking on. It could be if there were enough demand.
Regards
Malcolm

Xiping
Just right-click and choose Send To. That gives you a choice of Excel, SigmaPlot and Origin and will export the data to those (if installed).

way too much effort required to integrate within guide created GUIs. can't be asked.

Provides a solution to the limited resolution of the matlab transfer function filter forms when calling filtfilt. Filter objects can be created with zero pole gain prototypes, converted to second order sections and avoid the numerical precision problems associated with [b,a] transfer functions but allow use of filtfilt to eliminate phase distortion.

thanks, Malcom

I already have complete version of sigTOOL, but this was not the correct place where having a discussion about.

best,
Ste

Hi all,

I think sigTOOL can be a powerfull tool for analyzing neural data, but I could not explore its full potentiality because I'm not able to import my plexon dataset into it (until now I visualised data in wav format, but without events information):

I use Matlab R2008a and after launching sigTOOL gui, I run this:

>> ns_SetLibrary(which('nsPlxLibrary.dll'))

it return:

ans =

          0

After, I try to import *****.plx file but loading bar freezes at 13%; matlab command displays this errors:

??? In an assignment A(:) = B, the number of elements in A and B
must be the same.

Error in ==> ImportNS at 171
                imp.adc((k-1)*blocksize+1:(k-1)*blocksize+count)=data;

Error in ==> scImport at 50
targetfile=funchandle(fullfile(pathname, name), targetpath);

Error in ==> menu_ImportPLX at 38
    scImport(@ImportNS, '*.plx');

??? Error while evaluating uimenu Callback

can someone help me????

thank a lot!
Ste

I could not find any demo in the package.(jControldemo missing?)

Yunguo
To the best of my knowledge, this is the the only place where batch processing is presently not supported. I should have stated that in the documentation.
sigTOOL does not support Wave_clus for batch processing because it works through the Wave_clus GUI: Wave_clus parameters etc are extracted from the GUI userdata areas and user interaction is assumed. Wave_clus was designed to run as a stand-alone GUI, not in sigTOOL so it would take some work to include batch processing.
However, Wave_clus does provide batch processing routines and, in principle, unsupervised batch processing could be added to sigTOOL if enough users requested it.
Regards
Malcolm
 

OK.
The problem is 64 bit Windows. Wave_clus relies on a 32-bit Windows exe file.
Can that be run in a DOS window on 64-bit Windows?
Is it safe to try?
I do not know, so I will leave those questions to you.

If it is OK to run the cluster.exe file, then:
Put a break point at line 34 in run_cluster and check the value of handles.par.system which (I think) will be 'PCWIN64'. If it is, change line 35 of run_cluster to

case {'PCWIN', 'PCWIN64'}
(at present, the switch is defaulting to Linux).

Save the change and exit the debugger, then try again.

Good luck
Malcolm

Yunguo
That breakpoint should be line 7 not 8.
ML

Excellent MATLAB-based package I've ever seen for neural signal processing.

But I did encounter a problem with spiking sorting (using wave_clus under the menu "Spike Train". Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Thanks a lot in advance. The errors are:

Warning: File 'data_wc.dg_01.lab' not found.
> In run_cluster at 7
  In menu_InterfaceTo_wave_clus>Run at 235
Warning: File 'data_wc.dg_01' not found.
> In run_cluster at 8
  In menu_InterfaceTo_wave_clus>Run at 235
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
??? Error using ==> load
Unable to read file data_wc.dg_01.lab: No such file or directory.

Error in ==> run_cluster at 57
clu=load([fname '.dg_01.lab']);

Error in ==> menu_InterfaceTo_wave_clus>Run at 235
    [clu,tree]=run_cluster(handles);

??? Error while evaluating uicontrol Callback

Seems good but but the 'Pirate copy' popup that keeps appearing renders it unusable.

Useful, thanks.

SONGetADCData.c is missing so compile.m fails to work.
It's not clear which functions are SON32 and which are SON2. Suggest to put 32 suffix to distinguish.
The help document is not self-containting and should be upgraded

I am korean user that is interested in this file

I like this work : however I got a problem when trying the demo,

here is my udate of the javacomponent.m that made it work

if ( isa(hParent, 'figure') || ...
     isa(hParent, 'uicontainer') || ...
     isa(hParent, 'uiflowcontainer') || ...
     isa(hParent, 'uigridcontainer') ||...
     isa(hParent, 'hgjavacomponent'))
    parentIsFigure = true;
    peer = get(ancestor(parent,'figure'),'JavaFrame');
elseif isa(hParent, 'uitoolbar')
    peer = get(parent,'JavaContainer');
    if isempty(peer)
        drawnow;
        peer = get(parent,'JavaContainer');
    end
else
        error('MATLAB:javacomponent:InvalidParentHandle', 'Invalid parent handle\n%s', usage)
end

Excellent submission. Simple, easy to understand, richly documented and very effective. A great source of knowledge and examples for anyone interested in Java-Matlab integration as well as in object-oriented Matlab programming. This submission is one of, if not the, best that I've seen in fully utilizing Matlab's class properties (with some undocumented Matlab functionality), subscripted referencing & assignment, and method overloading. Aside from class methods which are missing here, this is a great example for Matlab OOP.