Axis numbers upside down

I made a gui which shows an ultrasound image. I made some axis to give an impression of the scaling. It worked fine, but after a few changes (nothing big), the numbers on the axis come out upside down. More specifically they are mirrored over both a horizontal and a vertical line. It looks super weird. The only thing I use to adjust axis properties is the following:

% Update main axes handle properties
set(gca, 'YAxisLocation', 'right',  ...
       'box',           'off',    ...
       'TickDir',       'out',    ...
       'XColor',        'Blue',   ...
       'YColor',        'Red');

What the duck is wrong?

Answer 1

[Jan]

This sounds like an OpenGL problem. Please try this:

opengl('software')

In older Matlab releases this might be:

feature('UseGenericOpenGL', 1)

Or under Linux:

feature('UseMesaSoftwareOpenGL', 1)

See:

help opengl
opengl info

and: Answers: mirrored axes lables

[Jakob Sørensen]

Thanks for the quick reply, that worked. I still have no clue why it did, but it worked :-)

[Jan]

Updating the OpenGL drivers of the graphics card helps sometimes. There are a lot of bugs concerning the OpenGL renderer, some exists since Matlab 6.5. I recommend to send an enhancement request to TMW, such that this problem will be fixed perhaps in Matlab 2013a.

[Jakob Sørensen]

So is the "opengl('software')" something you just have to write once? Or should i include it in the function?