Why get(Box) returns an error?

The error is:

Error using box Too many output arguments.

Shouldn't it give me the children objects (not sure if this is the corect nomenclature) contained in it and their properties? For example, I know there's something called boxFrame that I want to customize. I was expecting to find it in the list resulting from get(box) but it doesn't seem to work. Second question: how do I know it exists?

Thanks

[Image Analyst]

MATLAB is case sensitive. Box and box are thus different functions. box() is a function. Why are you passing it into get()? And why are you calling box() with no arguments? Please paste the entire error message here - that means ALL the red text. Don't snip or paraphrase.

[rbarata]

The error is:

_Error using box Too many output arguments._

Maybe I'm losing the focus of my question. The Axes box outline, is it an object?

[Walter Roberson]

No, the Axes box outline is not an object, unless perhaps it is created as an object at the Java level.

[rbarata]

I presume that Axes box is not an object also. I'm sorry for the confused questions, I'm new to this...the way I'm using to know which properties I can manipulate in an object is get(objectname). Is this ok or there's another way?

[Image Analyst]

Again, exactly what are you trying to accomplish. Forget about your line of code and how you're trying to go about it - just let us know what you want to do and we'll tell you the best way to accomplish it.

[rbarata]

Thanks for your time and patience.

Ok, using a concrete example...a 3D plot. I want to know how to make visible the box outline in all corners of the box.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/box.html

"box on displays the box outline around the current axes. This option sets the Box property of the current axes to 'on'."

Notice that box does not return a "box", only sets a property of the axes that determines how the axes is drawn.

You can use

get(gca, 'Box')

to examine the property.

Please post a link to some information about boxFrame as I do not see any evidence that such a thing exists in MATLAB. The closest that I can find is that SimMechanics has "Box Frame Trees".

[rbarata]

Here it is:

BoxFrame info

[Walter Roberson]

Ah, that is part of R2014b and later, which I do not have access to.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

When I said " Please paste the entire error message here - that means ALL the red text. Don't snip or paraphrase." you did exactly what I said not to do. How do I know? Because there are no line numbers or other things that tell me you copied and pasted ALL the red text.

Anyway, box() is a function that does not return anything. So why on earth are you passing that to get()???? Get() expects a handle to an object, like a GUI control, not a null. What are you trying to do anyway?