Thread Subject: Waitbar Broken, displays titlebar only

The waitbar command, instead of creating a figure with a progress
bar, creates an empty figure about 2 pixels high and 50 px wide with
no text or progress bar. Updating the progress using waitbar(.5);
does not solve the problem. closing using close(h) works. Any
ideas?

Also, I'd prefer to use a command line wait bar, but there seems to
be no way to instruct matlab to do a carriage return without it doing
a newline too. \r doesn't work, it behaves like \n. Also, \b
(backspace) prints a box character on the screen instead of doing a
backspace on fprintf'ed text. Any ideas here? Seems like a bug.
thanks.

Lava Klaublauer:
<SNIP looking for a command window waitbar...

this snippet does exactly what you want and has been working
flawlessly since ML release 10 on any wintel environment all the way
up to vista ultimate

 <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectType=file&objectId=1436>

unfortunately, other than rant you didn't provide any useful
information about your setup, eg, cpu, os, ML release

us

us wrote:
> this snippet does exactly what you want and has been working
> flawlessly since ML release 10 on any wintel environment all the
> way
> up to vista ultimate


I do not beleive I was ranting, but I would be glad to provide
more information.

I am using matlab V6 R12 on windows XP SP2


Here is an image of what your linked solution does:
 <http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb88/daviduchovny/matlab_boxes.jpg>

And here is what the waitbar GUI looks like:
 <http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb88/daviduchovny/matlab_waitbar.jpg>

thank you for your help.

"Lava Klaublauer" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
<ef5bca8.1@webcrossing.raydaftYaTP>...
> us wrote:
> > this snippet does exactly what you want and has been working
> > flawlessly since ML release 10 on any wintel environment
all the
> > way
> > up to vista ultimate
>
>
> I do not beleive I was ranting, but I would be glad to provide
> more information.
>
> I am using matlab V6 R12 on windows XP SP2
>
>
> Here is an image of what your linked solution does:
>
<http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb88/daviduchovny/matlab_boxes.jpg>
>
> And here is what the waitbar GUI looks like:
>
<http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb88/daviduchovny/matlab_waitbar.jpg>
>
> thank you for your help.

Crazy -- I'm having exactly the same problem. Your
screenshot is identical to mine. Also using Win XP SP2 with
MATLAB R12.1. Does anybody have any ideas about what could
be happening here? I searched the forums and this was the
only posting I could come up with regarding this issue.
Creating a waitbar (on either of two computers!) just makes
a small titlebar-ed window appear that's tiny in the top
left of the screen. It will close, but doesn't display properly.

Any ideas?

"Ian Clarkson" <ovoidkumquat@hotmail.com> wrote in message
<fvvq5f$5ml$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Lava Klaublauer" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> <ef5bca8.1@webcrossing.raydaftYaTP>...
> > us wrote:
> > > this snippet does exactly what you want and has been
working
> > > flawlessly since ML release 10 on any wintel environment
> all the
> > > way
> > > up to vista ultimate
> >
> >
> > I do not beleive I was ranting, but I would be glad to
provide
> > more information.
> >
> > I am using matlab V6 R12 on windows XP SP2
> >
> >
> > Here is an image of what your linked solution does:
> >
>
<http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb88/daviduchovny/matlab_boxes.jpg>
> >
> > And here is what the waitbar GUI looks like:
> >
>
<http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb88/daviduchovny/matlab_waitbar.jpg>
> >
> > thank you for your help.
>
> Crazy -- I'm having exactly the same problem. Your
> screenshot is identical to mine. Also using Win XP SP2 with
> MATLAB R12.1. Does anybody have any ideas about what could
> be happening here? I searched the forums and this was the
> only posting I could come up with regarding this issue.
> Creating a waitbar (on either of two computers!) just makes
> a small titlebar-ed window appear that's tiny in the top
> left of the screen. It will close, but doesn't display
properly.
>
> Any ideas?

Still no ideas on this post? I'm really frustrated with
waitbar() not working in MATLAB R12.1!