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uigetfile--can not select a file from dialog

matlab R14 runs on Linux enterprise.
ran uigetfile from matlab command window after matlab started.
Select file dialog box showed up. Clicked on a file under Files. But
no file name showed on Selection. If click on Open, message " File
does not exist". No file can be selected from uigetfile.
I know uigetfile works normally but do not understand why this
happend. It is really an annoying problem.

J Lin wrote:
>
>
> matlab R14 runs on Linux enterprise.
> ran uigetfile from matlab command window after matlab started.
> Select file dialog box showed up. Clicked on a file under Files.
> But
> no file name showed on Selection. If click on Open, message " File
> does not exist". No file can be selected from uigetfile.
> I know uigetfile works normally but do not understand why this
> happend. It is really an annoying problem.

I still have this problem and it exists even after I restart matlab.
Please help me what I should do to make uigetfile working correctly.

Thanks.

>>matlab R14 runs on Linux enterprise.
>>ran uigetfile from matlab command window after matlab started.
>>Select file dialog box showed up. Clicked on a file under Files.
>>But
>>no file name showed on Selection. If click on Open, message " File
>>does not exist". No file can be selected from uigetfile.
>>I know uigetfile works normally but do not understand why this
>>happend. It is really an annoying problem.
>
>
> I still have this problem and it exists even after I restart matlab.
> Please help me what I should do to make uigetfile working correctly.

just a question: are the characters in your file name all plain ascii? I
got similar problem trying to load files with German names.

Waldemar

Waldemar Krzok wrote:
>
>
>
>>>matlab R14 runs on Linux enterprise.
>>>ran uigetfile from matlab command window after matlab
started.
>>>Select file dialog box showed up. Clicked on a file under
Files.
>>>But
>>>no file name showed on Selection. If click on Open, message
"
> File
>>>does not exist". No file can be selected from uigetfile.
>>>I know uigetfile works normally but do not understand why
this
>>>happend. It is really an annoying problem.
>>
>>
>> I still have this problem and it exists even after I restart
> matlab.
>> Please help me what I should do to make uigetfile working
> correctly.
>
> just a question: are the characters in your file name all plain
> ascii? I
> got similar problem trying to load files with German names.
>
> Waldemar

I should say no. I tried with different types of files, .mat, binary,
ascii (English) but same problem occured. Bad news is that same
problem happens to uigetdir , too.
Thanks.

Jian

Waldemar Krzok wrote:
>
>
>
>>>matlab R14 runs on Linux enterprise.
>>>ran uigetfile from matlab command window after matlab
started.
>>>Select file dialog box showed up. Clicked on a file under
Files.
>>>But
>>>no file name showed on Selection. If click on Open, message
"
> File
>>>does not exist". No file can be selected from uigetfile.
>>>I know uigetfile works normally but do not understand why
this
>>>happend. It is really an annoying problem.
>>
>>
>> I still have this problem and it exists even after I restart
> matlab.
>> Please help me what I should do to make uigetfile working
> correctly.
>
> just a question: are the characters in your file name all plain
> ascii? I
> got similar problem trying to load files with German names.
>
> Waldemar
I am sorry for misunderstanding your question. Yes, all my file names
are plain ascii (english).

>
>

I am also having this problem under RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, Matlab
R14SP1. The bug is: run uigetfile, click on a file, click open, get a
"file does not exist" error dialog box, and uigetfile returns 0,
instead of the file name.

There is a workaround: if you manually type in the name of the file,
uigetfile returns successfully. This suggests that the problem is that
the file name is not being copied to the text box.

No solution has been posted to the newsgroups since August '04, and
Jian Lin tells me that he still doesn't have a solution.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Tom

Tom D. wrote on 05 Jan 2005 19:10:36 MET:

> I am also having this problem under RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, Matlab
> R14SP1. The bug is: run uigetfile, click on a file, click open, get a
> "file does not exist" error dialog box, and uigetfile returns 0,
> instead of the file name.
>
> There is a workaround: if you manually type in the name of the file,
> uigetfile returns successfully. This suggests that the problem is that
> the file name is not being copied to the text box.
>
> No solution has been posted to the newsgroups since August '04, and
> Jian Lin tells me that he still doesn't have a solution.
> Any ideas?

A bit late (...), but JFTR:

,----[ http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/blog/ ]
| For csh variants:
|
| linux% ( unsetenv LANG ; /path/to/my/matlab ) &
|
| For Bourne-shell variants:
|
| linux$ ( unset LANG ; /path/to/my/matlab ) &
`----

Patrick
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If you change the UseNativeDialogs root property to 0 then you will
get a nicer FileChooser in Java.

I use
>setappdata(0,'UseNativeSystemDialogs',0)
for this and it works perfectly in my Ubuntu whereas the normal
uigetfile doesn't work.