"There is no ActivePositionProperty property on the Figure class" error

This is the error I get when I run a program I created back in 2011 using Guide. It runs fine in R2012a, but gives this error in R2015b. The error happens in the Guide part of the code that I didn't write:

Error using matlab.ui.Figure/get

      There is no ActivePositionProperty property on the Figure class.

Error in movegui (line 119)

      oldposmode = get(fig,'ActivePositionProperty');

Error in matlab.hg.internal.openfigLegacy (line 94)

      movegui(fig(n), 'onscreen');

Error in gui_mainfcn>local_openfig (line 286)

      gui_hFigure = matlab.hg.internal.openfigLegacy(name, singleton, visible);

Error in gui_mainfcn (line 158)

      gui_hFigure = local_openfig(gui_State.gui_Name, gui_SingletonOpt, gui_Visible);

Error in eightlinkleg (line 42)

           [varargout{1:nargout}] = gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:})___|;|

What can I do to fix it?

[Scott]

Can anyone help me with this? The error occurs in Matlab-supplied code (in movegui) that calls:

oldposmode = get(fig,'ActivePositionProperty');

but ActivePositionProperty is not a property of a figure. Am I missing something obvious here? Was ActivePositionProperty once a property of a figure that got changed to something else? I've scoured the mathworks website for help, to no avail.

Answer 1

[Joachim Schlosser]

ActivePositionProperty is property of axes, not figure.

See e.g. https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/examples/changing-axes-properties.html?searchHighlight=ActivePositionProperty

[Scott]

Yes, I know it is a property of axes. However, Matlab's own routine 'movegui' uses it as a property of a FIGURE.

Error in movegui (line 119) oldposmode = get(fig,'ActivePositionProperty');

Furthermore, it was a property of a figure back in R2012a, or at least that line of code worked without causing an error.

Thanks for your attempt at solving it, however. Anyone else have a suggestion?

[Mike Garrity]

But the copy of movegui.m in R2015b doesn't contain that line. Have you got a copy of movegui from an old version on your path?

[Scott]

That's it! I must have made a minor change long ago to the R2012a version of movegui and put it on my path (and subsequently forgot about it). Thanks so much!

Answer 2

[daniel]

Im having the same issue, my error is :

"Matlab guide error using get there is no AnnotationPane class "

this error occurs when I try to resize the GUI window borders in GUIDE. I am trying to resize my GUI window borders because some buttons have become invisible after I opened and saved the GUI on different matlab installs/computers/monitors.

Any advise is appreciated

[Walter Roberson]

Can you attach your .fig and .m ?

AnnotationPane is matlab.graphics.shape.internal.AnnotationPane