ginput crashes matlab on figure close (Windows 8)

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing some peculiar behaviour (tried on R2012b and R2014a on different Windows PCs):

> figure(1); ginput()

and we close the figure, the appropriate error is thrown:

Error using ginput (line 112)
Interrupted by figure deletion

whereas if we have

> figure(1); figure(2); ginput();

and we close figure 2, a matlab system error happens and matlab crashes completely. If we close figure 1, and then figure 2, we get the figure deletion error again as expected.

Any ideas how to avoid the matlab crash? try/catching does not work (since it doesn't actually throw an error...)

Edit : It seems the problem is applicable to Windows 8 and 8.1, and not Windows 7.

Thanks!

- Adrian

[dpb]

Any different behavior if change the renderer property?

Irrespective of that, Matlab should not crash itself; if you can reproduce this (as it seems from you post you can) then it's subject fodder for a bug report to TMW at mathworks.com

[Adrian]

Yes, it is reproducible even with different renderers. Thanks for the suggestion. I guess I'll submit a bug report!

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I do not observe the behavior you did. What I see is expected and is this:

>> figure(1); figure(2); ginput();
Error using ginput (line 84)
Interrupted by figure deletion

I closed figure 2 and it simply gave an entirely reasonable error message.

[Adrian]

Hm, I can't reproduce the errors on my Windows 7 computer, but it's consistently reproducible on all of my Windows 8 machines. It seems to somehow be related to Windows 8 then? What OS did you try?

[Image Analyst]

I had R2014a on Windows 7.

[Adrian]

Thanks. I should have specified originally that my problems were on Win 8. But this was a good check, and yeah it seems that Win 7 is fine.