java.lang.​ClassNotFo​undExcepti​on in matlabR2014a - matlab

I am using MATLAB R2014a. but sometimes give me following error:
Exception "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.intellij.codeInsight.editorActions.FoldingData"while constructing DataFlavor for: application/x-java-jvm-local-objectref; class=com.intellij.codeInsight.editorActions.FoldingData
why? Of course I use pycharm IDE along with MATLAB. Is it because it?

See this answer:
Why/How is IntelliJ causing debug output in Netbeans?
This is not related to any setup you've done within MATLAB -- it's apparently something that IntelliJ, WebStorm, or PyCharm has put into the clipboard. It goes away if you don't have one of those programs running at the same time.

This error indicates that MATLAB is not able to locate or read your MATLAB preferences directory. This could be due to a setting or variable on your system which is causing MATLAB to look for your preferences in a location where you do not have read access.
Typically this happens due to running a configuration script for MATLAB such as 'config_matlab.sh' which attempts to set your preferences directory to a non-default location where you do not have read or write access. You should start by removing the portion of the script which sets your environment variable.
You should choose a directory where you have both read and write access. The default location is in your home folder.

I had to copy something to the clipboard that was not from IntelliJ to get this to stop occurring. It was occurring even after I'd closed IntelliJ, presumably because of whatever remained in the Clipboard.

The error is caused when you copy something from intellij which stores serialized objects on the clipboard.
I found a workaround for this, you can just set the error stream to a different PrintStream than the console's err stream.
See this code
PrintStream errStream = System.err;
System.setErr(new PrintStream("error.log"));
and use the errStream later on to set it back.
It is just a work around if you don't want that error to be printed on the console.

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Running a Matlab p-file coded for Windows on a MacOS

I have several Windows sourced p-files internally coded with the '\' file separator that I want to run on Matlab under macOS.
I get errors caused by the '\' because macOS uses '/'.
eg The pfile tries to call a file named "model\xyz' which causes a warning:
"Name is nonexistent or not a directory: model\ "
1) Is there code that I might insert somewhere to recognise the 'model\' call from the pcode file and change it to 'model/' before it is used by MATLAB addpath?
2) Is there a generic fix I could apply to the addpath code?
3) Or better still is there a way to modify the Windows p-file without access to its source code so that it will run under macOS?
There are several things you can do (none of which are particularly easy; listed here in increasing order of how nasty I think they are):
Contact the author of the code and ask them to fix it.
Install an older MATLAB version (R2007b <= ver < R2015b, I think) which allowed debugging (stepping into) p-files within MATLAB, then, assuming that there is some line in the original source code that does
filepath = ['model' '\' 'xyz.m'];
step until you see filepath appear in the workspace (having the wrong path in it), then simply edit the value to the correct path, and hope for the best.
(Essentially the same idea as before, but on newer MATLAB versions, VERY DIFFICULT to pull off) Obtain an external debugger, attach to the MATLAB process, run the p-file and scan the memory for the contents of filepath. When you discover it, change the value to the correct path and detach/disable the debugger.
If this code relies on some external (and open source) function to get (or use) the path, you can modify its behavior to output the string you want. This requires some knowledge about the source code.
Find/make a tool for decoding p-files and fix the resulting source code yourself.
For completeness I describe how my problem was solved:
As suggested by Dev-iL I was eventually able to locate the author and he modified his code. This is the best solution but it took some time and is not always possible.
Based on: https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/117110-dealing-with-and-windows-vs-unix-for-path-definition I located a module (I've forgotten its name) within the Matlab package which handles file calls and intercepted all incoming file path names containing the '\' Windows separator, and replaced them with the always acceptable '/'. This quick and dirty fix worked until solution 1. was obtained.
Thanks to all who responded so quickly to this question.

LLDB: Specifying source search folders for flattened folder structure

I'm using VSCode + CodeLLDB + LLDB to debug a JIT'ed language (KL), however I'm having trouble getting LLDB to recognize the source files.
This is a duplicate question to LLDB equivalent of gdb "directory" command for specifying source search path?, however it's accepted answer doesn't work for me.
LLDB seems to think every source unit is compiled to the local directory - so if I execute
kl /MyWork/someFile.kl
and this file includes /any/other/path/external.kl, LLDB will believe the file is located as /MyWork/external.kl
So far, I'm (mostly) working around this problem by using
settings set target.source-map /MyWork/ /any/other/path/
However this only seems to work for a single folder. If I tried:
settings set target.source-map /MyWork/ /any/other/path/
settings set target.source-map /MyWork/ /I/use/many/dependencies/
Then LLDB seems to not be able to find -any- files in either folder. Interestingly, when I tried this LLDB errored with accurate messages
can't find external.kl in /I/use/many/dependencies/
can't find dependencies.kl in /any/other/path/
Which are accurate messages, but seems almost as if LLDB is just looking for an excuse to error-out :).
Note - I can set breakpoints and view locals, I just can't seem to view the source code at that spot.
Anywho - is there any suggestions on how to deal with this issue? There are 3 possibilities to work with:
- Modify/work with LLDB to find the source files
- Modify CodeLLDB to modify paths between LLDB + VSCode
- Somehow convince VSCode to ignore the path given to it, and search its own folders for any file matching the name.
My suspicion is that LLDB is the right place to fix this, but I am open to any suggestions (right up to the point of linking each and every source file into a flat folder I can redirect to).
lldb only knows about source paths from what is written in the debug information. The rule in DWARF (the debug format lldb uses) is that if an include file is just given by relative path or base name then it is taken to be relative to the compilation directory. Looks like that's what is happening in your case. That sounds like a compiler bug. lldb's not going to be able to reconstruct the file hierarchy at this point.
The source maps should give you a manual way to fix this, and from the sound of it, what you are describing should work. But maybe there's something else odd in the DWARF output from kl that is confusing it. You'll need to file a bug with some example binary to http://bugreporter.apple.com.

MATLAB doesn't find files I downloaded while the script is running

My problem is as described. My script downloads files through an external call to cmd (using the system function and then .NET to make keypresses). The issue is that when it tries to fopen these files I downloaded (filenames from a text file I write as I download), it doesn't find them, causing an error. When I run the script again after seeing it fail, it works but only up to the point where it's trying to download/call new files again, where it runs into the same problem.
Are new files downloaded during when a script is running somehow not visible to the search path? Because the folder is most definitely in my search path (seeing as it works outside of during-script downloads). It's not that it isn't getting the files fast enough either, cause they appear in my folder almost instantly, and I've tried a delay to allow for it to recognize it, but that didn't work either.
I'm not sure if it's important to note that the script calls an external function which tries to read the files from the .txt list I create in the main script.
Any ideas?
The script to download the files looks like so:
NET.addAssembly('System.Windows.Forms');
sendkey = #(strkey) System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.SendWait(strkey);
system('start cygwinbatch.bat')
pause(.1)
sendkey(callStr1)
sendkey('{ENTER}')
pause(.1)
sendkey(callStr2)
sendkey('{ENTER}')
pause(.1)
sendkey('exit')
pause(2)
sendkey('{ENTER}')
But that is not the main reason I am asking: I am confident that the downloads are occurring when the script calls them, because I see them appearing in my folder as it called. I am more confused as to why MATLAB doesn't seem to know they are there while the script is running, and I have to stop it and run it again for it to recognize the ones I've downloaded already.
Thank you,
Aaron
The answer here is probably to run the 'rehash' function. Matlab does not look for new files while executing an operation, and in some environments misses new files even during interactive activity.
Running the rehash function forces Matlab to search through its full path and determine if there are any new files.
I've never tried to run rehash in the middle of an operation though. ...
My guess is that the MATLAB interpreter is trying to look ahead and is throwing errors based on a snapshot of what the filesystem looked like before the files were downloaded. Do you get different behavior if you run it one line at a time using F9? If that's the case then you may be able to prevent the interpreter from looking ahead by using eval().

MatLab - Undefined function or variable 'script'

I have a script, called TESTSCRIPT. It was running fine since I created it several hours ago, but now whenever I try to run it, either by pressing F5 or using the command prompt, I get the error message
Undefined function or variable 'TESTSCRIPT'
TESTSCRIPT is in fact a solution to another script file that had suffered the same consequence. I have read through many people's MatLab Forum posts, and I have tried many, if not all, the solutions given:
Checked, double checked, and triple checked the Matlab paths using path, which TESTSCRIPT, and pwd. All return the correct paths.
Changed file and function names so that they wouldn't match any function or file I don't know about within the MatLab paths.
Creating a new file, and copying the code. This provided a temporary solution, until now.
Commented out all but the declaration of two variables. Still get the same error message.
Changed computers. This didn't change anything.
The only thing that stood out when I did all these was when I typed which TESTSCRIPT and got <path>\MATLAB\TESTSCRIPT\TESTSCRIPT.m % Has no license available. I definitely do have a license, because I've been using it for the last 8-9 months without a problem.
I cannot put breakpoints within the code. When I try, a window pops up and says:
License Checkout failed.
License Manager Error -39
along with other stuff.
Scripts older than a week run fine when I hit F5. If I select a piece of code, within TESTSCRIPT, and run just that selection (by pressing F9), that runs without a problem.
My first thought was the file is corrupt, but then a new file would have worked, and this being the third time I've had to creat a new set of files, I'm confident it is not the case.
What is going on, and how do I solve this?
UPDATE
This seems to have resolved itself when I closed and opened MatLab. It does not explain why it has done this, but the problem seems to be solved.
Both dec2rad and pi are builtin functions, rename both variables to avoid the error.

How to read a file specified in the PyDev environment variables

My Project Euler setup is a PyDev project that I work on from two different computers (one is a Mac, the other is Windows 7). The file structure of the project looks like this:
PROJECT_LOC/
unsolved/
The .py files for the problems I haven't solved
solved/
Problems_001_025/
.py files for problems 1-25
... etc ...
texts/
Any input files provided by Project Euler (e.g., Problem 22)
Every file is named in the pattern Problem###.py or Problem###.txt.
Once I solve a problem, I move it from unsolved to the correct directory in solved, which is where my difficulty comes in:
Given a problem with input, say Problem022.py:
for line in open("../texts/Problem022.txt"):
# read file in
# code to solve the problem
Since I solved Problem 22 a while back, I moved it from PROJECT_LOC/unsolved/ to PROJECT_LOC/solved/Problems_001_025/. Now, (not surprisingly) when I try to run it again, it gives me a no such file error.
So, without changing my file structure, is there a way for me to access the input text files from wherever I am in the project directory?
I was thinking I could do something like open(${PROJECT_LOC}/texts), but I have no idea how to get the PROJECT_LOC from Eclipse at run time, and have it work on both Windows and OS X. I played with what this person did in his question, but couldn't get it to work for me.
I figured it out...
I added an environment variable to the interpreter with the value ${PROJECT_LOC:texts}/ in my Eclipse preferences. I can now use os.environ["PROJECT_EULER_TEXT_FILES"] to pull the location of the input.