SPM99 was written quite a long time ago now. This was well before Matlab 7
(R14) came along. The problem that you encountered should be fixed by
replacing spm_platform.m with the spm_platform.m from the SPM2 distribution.
You may still encounter other problems though.
Best regards,
-John
> I have just installed Matlab 14 on my Mac and am trying to put SPM99 to
> work, but haven't been very successful so far. (Note: I need to install
> SPM99 rather than SPM2, for a question of compatibility with previous
> work.)
>
> After searching for a solution in the FAQ and SPM mailing list, I
> followed the suggestion to recompile SPM for the MAC platform, but it
> still doesn't work.
>
> I get the following error:
> > Initialising SPM........??? Error using ==> spm_platform
> > Do not know how to set temp directory
> >
> > Error in ==> spm at 822
> > TWD = spm_platform('tempdir'); % Temp directory
> >
> > Error in ==> spm at 789
> > spm('defaults',Modality)
> >
> > Error in ==> spm at 454
> > spm('ChMod',Modality),
> > fprintf('.')
> >
> > ??? Error while evaluating uicontrol Callback.
>
> What else do I need to do? Any suggestion would be kindly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Susana
