Input Dialog error :(
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Edmund Paul Malinowski
on 13 Nov 2015
Commented: Edmund Paul Malinowski
on 13 Nov 2015
Hi all :)
I'm trying to get user input for note values so i eventually can play any note in an octave. Although yesterday it was working fine, for some reason my code to take user input keeps erroring with:
Attempt to execute SCRIPT dialog as a function:
C:\Users\Paul\Documents\MATLAB\dialog.m
Error in inputdlg (line 123)
InputFig=dialog( ...
Error in dialog (line 8)
answer=inputdlg(prompt,name,[1 50],defaultans);
Here's my code for it and although i'm new to matlab, i cannot for the life of me see any differences or errors in the code from what i found on this site:
% SHOW INPUT DIALOG AND TAKE USER INPUT..
prompt={'1st Note','2nd Note','3rd Note','4th Note','5th Note','6th Note','7th Note'};
name='Enter Note Values (C, D, etc)..';
num_lines=1;
defaultans={'C','D','E','F','G','A','B'};
answer=inputdlg(prompt,name,[1 50],defaultans);
% CONFIGURE INPUT TO VARIABLES..
Note1 = answer{1};
Note2 = answer{2};
Note3 = answer{3};
Note4 = answer{4};
Note5 = answer{5};
Note6 = answer{6};
Note7 = answer{7};
Any ideas why its erroring out on me? Yesterday with the same code, it displayed the dialog box but today, the error :(
Thanks,
Paul
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Adam
on 13 Nov 2015
How are you calling that? The error message suggests you are trying to call it using function syntax. Although it also says the error is on line 8 of the file that is supposedly being called with the wrong syntax so I'm not sure at a glance.
Accepted Answer
Steven Lord
on 13 Nov 2015
You created your own script file named dialog.m, located in the directory C:\Users\Paul\Documents\MATLAB. When the inputdlg function included in MATLAB attempts to call the dialog function included in MATLAB your script named dialog takes precedence (because "C:\Users\Paul\Documents\MATLAB" is your current directory, I assume?) and so inputdlg attempts to call your script as a function. That's why you receive an error.
The solution is for you to rename your dialog.m script file.
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