George Cameron wrote:
> cyril pernet wrote:
>
>> Hi George
>>
>>> I recently installed SPM 5.0 for some of our users. Subsequently, a
>>> problem was reported to me, which I've been able to confirm. I'm a
>>> novice at SPM (which probably makes two of us!), but nevertheless
>>> what I'm seeing looks to me more like a bug than user error. I've
>>> just joined the list, and am reporting it here, in case anybody can
>>> confirm this observation (or even better, post a solution/fix :-).
>>> The specific action which my colleague wished to perform was to run
>>> an external Matlab .m file from the SPM Utils menu. 1. Version:
>>> SPM 5.0 2. Matlab version: 7.1 3. Platform: Windows (XP) 4.
>>> Actions:
>>> 1. Start SPM (command 'Matlab.exe -nojvm -nosplash -minimize'
>>> was issued with current directory set to SPM installation
>>> directory, wherein a startup.m containing the single command
>>> 'spm' was placed)
>>> 2. Click on fMRI time-series (although I believe behaviour is
>>> similar for the alternative options)
>>> 3. From Utils menu, choose 'Run mFile'
>>> 4. File browser appears, but *only folders/directories appear*
>>> (in particular no mfiles are shown)
>>> 5. Filter is set to .* by default - neither this nor obvious
>>> variations on this appear to make any difference
>>> 5. Unable to proceed further :-(
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Has anybody else seen this?
>>
>>
>> I've seen this and thus confirm the bug .. although it's not an spm
>> bug but matlab7/winXP somehow related.
>> Unfortunately I haven't been able to fix this .. a temporary solution
>> is to put the .m file in a folder in isolation (it seems to appear
>> when other files (.m or others) are in the same folder). A better
>> solution is to use linux on which the pblm does not exist.
>
> Hi Cyril,
>
> Thanks for your response. We've tried and confirmed the 'isolated
> file' workaround, and will probably also follow the Linux route in due
> course.
Smart choice ;-)
Simply add the folder in which your m-file is to the matlab patch (or
make in current directory) and type the name of your m-file from the
command line. Is much easier anyway...
Good luck!
>
> George
>
>>
>> best
>> cyril
>
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