Matlab fonts

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Dear Matlab Gurus,

Can you please advise me on which fonts I have specificly to install or which changes to matlab config have to make, so that brainstorm GUI interface: scale appropriately (by default all the windows small so labels are too tiny) and make labels readable (it seems that the family of fonts used for POSIX UI used by matlab is quite screwed on small sizes)

Here is the example of brainstorm UI which shows the problem even when scaled full screen (1024x768):

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Thank you in advance for ideas

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Hi yarikoptic,

I don’t think there is an easy fix to your problem here. Do you use the entire desktop as BrainStorm’s playground ? If not, try to increase the size of th e GUIs so that entire screen is filled with BST GUIs. Then select the GUI taskbar on the left and click on ‘SET’ and all subsequent GUIs should fit.

What screen resolution and siwe do you use ? If there is no quick fix here, maybe we can include a feature in next updates that will ask the user to specify font sizes.

Cheers.

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Thank you, Sylvain, for the reply

Thank you for the hint: SET indeed does something funny to the main dialog. MRI manager though just gets reset to the original size. Anyway if I even occupy the whole desktop (1280x1024) the fonts are unreadable in MRI manager.

I was poking at the BST code and located the places where the font sizes are defined, so I could adjust them but I that would be cumbersome and not flexible solution. That would be great if you collect font size configuration in a single file, and use defined there values in the rest of the BST UIs, then I could just adjust them to my environment.

Another thing: whenever I open MRI manager I get errors:


Figure has two handles with same tag!: Axes1Text1
Figure has two handles with same tag!: Axes1Text2
Figure has two handles with same tag!: Axes1Text3
Figure has two handles with same tag!: Axes1Text4

and manager doesn't really show any MRI data. Is it just me or there is smth?

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Good suggestion regarding the font size; thanks.

As for the MRI tool not showing any MRI: did you try the tutorial data that you can dowload along with the toolbox ? Also, what is the MRI format you use ?

http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/Tutorial.html

Thanks for your feedback.

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Sure - I want to make sense out of BST first on the 'approved' data :slight_smile:
Here is the list of actions:

I've got the TB and supplied tutorial data.

Start matlab from the directory where startup.m is located and default_database is the subdirectory (also Phantom/ is there)

sphere_data_414889 appears in the "default data" drop down.

I go to the "sphere_subjectimage" drop down and select "MRI manager"

After this actions I get the messages I reported
Matlab Version 6.1.0.450 Release 12.1
The same seems to happen also under
Version 6.0.0.88 Release 12

It might be system dependent bug. I will try to locate it and find the reason some time later.

Thank you for your support :slight_smile:

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I’m afraid this might be an issue with the Matlab versions you’re using. BsT is supported with Matlab 6.5 and we’re now considering moving to 7.1. It may happen that some MRIViewer functions does not work properly with earlier Matlab versions though no error message will pop out.

Let me know how this is progressing.