Why do I receive an error when I create a figure containing a contour plot and a colorbar in MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)?

I create a figure with a contour plot and a colorbar using the following code:

load flujet

h=image(X);

hold on;

[c,hc]=contour(get(h,'cdata'),[1 1],'w','linewidth',2);

colorbar

When I do this, I get the following error message:

 ??? Error using ==> set

 Bad value for axes property: 'YLim'

 Values must be increasing and non-NaN.

 Error in ==> colorbar>make_colorbar at 170

 ch=scribe.colorbar(peeraxes,location,position,pvpairs{:});

 Error in ==> colorbar at 137

   [c,msg] = make_colorbar(peeraxes,location,position,pvpairs);

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

There is a bug in MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2) that causes the COLORBAR function to incorrectly determine the upper and lower limits of the colorbar.

To work around this issue, you can do the following:

load flujet

h=image(X);

hold on;

colorbar

[c,hc]=contour(get(h,'cdata'),[1 1],'w','linewidth',2);