Feedback for me

Hi community members. In the last weeks, I have found my questions are not getting answers. This makes me ask myself if perhaps my questions are extremely difficult to resolve (I do not think so) or otherwise I am wrong in the questions formulation and writing (I have always tried to follow the instructions of the tutorial about how to ask a question and get a faster answer on Matlab Answers). I would like to know if people do not trust on me or what I am doing wrongly.

[Jan]

@Julian: While so many users simply do not care about a feedback given as comments to the question, you actively ask for criticism. Respect.

[Julián Francisco]

@Jan Simon: My intention is not offend nobody (I am sorry if I might have made it in unaware way). All opinions are respectable if they are formulated politely. I am the first critic one with myself.

[Jan]

@Julian: I assume, there is a misunderstanding. I wanted to show my respect. I esteem your interest in improving your contributions, because this is the best (and only) way to improve the quality of the complete forum. Therefore I've voted this question.

I've read the "How to give a good answer" again last week after a series of 27 answers without a vote or acceptance. Quality is not a state, one can reach statically, but a process of measuring the current level and improving it.

My personal impression about your way to ask questions: You include the necessary details and omit confusing details, you post the relevant part of the code using a proper format, you include a question, you show a lot of effort to solve the problems alone at first, you care about questions for clarifications and comments. In consequence you got 10 votes for your answers - and only 1000 of the currently 21.500 questions have been voted at all. If you do not get an answer, this is caused by the fact, that currently only about 16 contributors are creating answers frequently and non of them seems to have enough knowhow conerning Java.

[Julián Francisco]

@Jan Simon: you are right. There was a misunderstanding. I apologize for it. I understood you were asking me to show respect for the community users opinions received (English is not my native language). Regarding to the votes, I also have noticed that people often do not vote the answers given for others. I always vote each one of the answers received because I think it is a prize for the help effort and dedication shown by people. Concerning to quality, basing on my short experience here and some posts I have read (for example, Wish-list for MATLAB Answer sections), it is evident that a lot of things can be improved. We have an important role to achieve it because we are the spokesmen of those improvements. Thank you back, Jan.

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

It looks like you have accepted answers on 86% of your answers, although your last three questions have not been answered. Those questions are at most 3 days old. If you are not happy with the answers you are accepting, then don't accept them. As for you relatively recent questions they all seem to revolve around a specific uitree java component. They seem like well formed and reasonable questions. It is possible that none of the frequent contributors have the required expertise (I don't).

You might be better off hiring a consultant for these issues. Since they revolve around java, I would suggest http://undocumentedmatlab.com/consulting/

[Julián Francisco]

@Daniel: Thank you so much for your answer. I appreciate it.

[Jan]

I agree. Working with UITREE is still risky. It is not compatible with older Matlab versions and prone to problems. E.g. changing the Position in the ResizeFcn of the parent figure works _usually_ - care for using the event dispatch thread... This is far away from being convenient. Therefore I hesitate to get enough experiences with UITABLEs.

Yair offers the required knowhow to answer such questions.

@TMW: The current GUI objects look like the early 90th. I really hope, that Matlab 8 has powerful UITREE, UITABLE and UITAB objects - including extra checkboxes for the UITREE labels, context menus, scroll path to visible, set cursor, colored colomns or rows in UITABLE (the HTML approach is ugly, if you try to edit an element), sortable columns, etc.

[Julián Francisco]

@Jan Simon: Firstly, I appreciate your answers. It is the first time that I use the uitree and uitabgroup undocumented functions (I did not knew their risks although I have found some bugs recently). I agree with you about the current GUI objects look and feel. The only way I have found to improve this aspect is through Matlab-Java programming. If there is another way, I would be pleased to try it but simply I do not know it. I also would like TMW to consider the users opinions to improve their product Matlab in the future releases.

[Malcolm Lidierth]

On the GUI issue, I gave up using MATLABs uicontrols in favour of using Java Swing directly about a decade ago. Last week, I posted the GImport class to the FEX. That allows a GUI designed outside of MATLAB e.g. in the Eclipse or NetBeans GUI designers to be imported easily into MATLAB. See

<http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/34235-making-matlab-swing-more>

[Julián Francisco]

@Malcolm Lidierth: Thank you for your answer. Your application look likes very interesting.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

I do not have experience in most of what you have been asking about. I also do not have restricted capacity to research them at present, as remote access to my server is not presently available.

[Walter Roberson]

Also, it happens that the regular posters here are involved with signal processing or engineering or mathematics or image processing or science, but not particularly involved with GUI issues. That was not by design: it just reflects who happens to have wandered by and stayed.

[Julián Francisco]

@Walter Roberson: Thank you so much for your answers. I am grateful for them.

Answer 3

[John D'Errico]

Don't forget that around this time of year, many people are away, perhaps visiting families, or otherwise busy. They may have extra work to resolve before a deadline approaches at years end. People have lives too. That reduces the number of people who may be willing and able to answer your questions.

If your questions are fairly specific or require knowledge that is not directly about MATLAB as much as JAVA, then this also reduces the set of people who are reading a MATLAB group and also have the knowledge you need.

[Julián Francisco]

@John D'Errico: You are right. Thank you very much for your answer.