Comments and Ratings

I cannot run the program as I met the following errors.
>> staker
??? Error using ==> figure
Error using ==> figure
Error using ==> figure
UIJ_AreThereWindowShowsPending - timeout waiting for window to show up

Error in ==> staker>make_figure at 3503
    hObject = figure('Units','pixels','Position',position,...

Error in ==> staker>initialize_intro at 241
    hFigure = make_figure([1+(SCREEN_SIZE(3:4)-[300 300])./2 300 300],...

Error in ==> staker at 213
  initialize_intro;

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

@Alan: Admittedly, I may have broken with the spirit of the competition slightly by creating an interactive GUI as opposed to one or more functions to be used from the command line. This obviously made it hard to make a published m-file which could generate its own images. I probably could have hijacked the GUI from the command line (setting hidden handles to visible, using FINDOBJ to get handles for the GUI components, and forcibly setting the GUI state), but this seemed kloogy an inelegant. It was easier and cleaner to capture screen shots and include the images with the submission.

Ken: Could the images not appearing in the online html be due the difference in case of the image file extensions? The zip file images are .PNG while the html is looking for .png. I look forward to seeing them!

Ken: They show up fine for me. Note, as I pointed out in the newsgroup thread, when you download the zip files from FEX, you need to actually UNZIP the file first before viewing the html to see the images. Even though Windows lets you browse directly into the zip file and directly open the html embedded in it, it's not smart enough to also decompress the images.

good job!Thank you for sharing

I've submitted an updated beta version of Staker that should be available within the next day or so (v0.6). This version should run independently from the Image Processing Toolbox, so anyone who only has access to core MATLAB functions should be able to play!

Ken

Hi Guillermo,

Most likely, you do not have the Image Processing toolbox, which is where FSPECIAL is from. I required some of the functions from the IP toolbox to do a number of things, like generate texture maps for the terrain. Unfortunately, some have found this to be a limitation, since not everyone has access to the IP toolbox. I have been considering writing my own versions of the IP functions I need, although I imagine they may not be as fast as those in the IP toolbox. I probably won't do this for the next version (v1.0) I release, but maybe for versions after that. For now, the IP toolbox is required. Sorry if this is an inconvenience.

Ken

I bow down to thy MATLAB God.

While I cannot force the trash ratings by Marco to be removed, this is far better than his rating indicates. The help is quite good. This will be a useful utility if you work on large software projects in MATLAB.

mp of 7 jun 2008 am not I, but will be this the true???? to live will be to know

Not appropriate - peddle hate somewhere else.

Thanks for the support John. Incidently, if you would like to change the GUI colors for the game, I included a "Preferences" button at the bottom of the main menu that opens a GUI for customizing the display. You should be able to adjust the panel and text colors as well as the font type and size.

its vary vary fare

Wording and initials suggest the poor poor rating was written by the infamous file exchange author 'marco', either by accident or in revenge. So far I thought DNFTT, but if it's true he now starts to mess up the rating system, I think there should be a way to block him and to annul his rating.

Program don’t show this, don’t show clssification. Future versions will show classification: You=Infinite==Infinite|or|Circle*NaN...

The submissions mentioned by the first reviewer do an excellent job and are clearly superior to your program.

I've submitted a slightly updated version to remove some mlint messages. The help description was also not formatting properly (no indents appeared, so you have to look at the function header for correct examples).

Very good. Extremely well thought out.

Jos, the driving force behind me creating this function was for reading a user input for a color from an editable text box. In this case, the 'String' argument from the text box could be something like 'r g b', and I wanted to allow this as a valid way for the user to define a color in the text box.

Kenneth, I understand your efforts using regexp. However, I do no see why anybody should use your function to change the string 'r g b' into the numerical vector [r g b]
If time permits, I will put my alternative on the FEX. Regards, Jos

Joseph,
  Sorry if you thought this was a Matlab ATM. No cha-ching!

John,
  Good point about the name. I think I'll update it with an extra option to specify the currency. The centsFlag argument is discussed in the help header with the .m file... I just didn't add it to the above description.

Have yet to get a penny from this program. When will you be mailing the checks?