MATLAB: How to keep figures invisible

figure visibility loopMATLAB

The next code snippet creates an invisible figure.

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off')
plot(randi(10,20,1))

The figures in the next piece of code are visible despite the first line.

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off')
for i = 1:4
    fh(1) = figure(1)
    subplot(2,2,i)
    plot(randi(10,20,1),'color',[1 0 0])
      fh(2) = figure(2)
      subplot(2,2,i)
      plot(randi(10,20,1),'color',[0 1 0])
  end

Ik could add the next line…

    set(gcf,'Visible','Off')

However then the figure would appear first.

How to keep figures invisible in a loop?

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Perhaps this helps:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/134625

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Instead of setting the current figure by:

set(0,'CurrentFigure',figs(2))

and relying on the hope, that the current fuigure is not changed (e.g. when a user clicks on it unexpectedly), it is much safer to define the 'Parent' property whenever a graphical element is created:

ax{2}(1) = subplot(2,1,1,'Xscale','log', 'Parent', figs(2));
plot(ax{2}(1), 1:10);
% Or: plot(1:10, 'Parent', ax{2}(1))

Then it does not disturb anything, if the CurrentFigure is changed.

It is some work to include this in general, but I've seen too many GUIs fail due to users clicking on objects pre-maturely or at unexpected times. Callbacks of timers can change the current figure and axes also.

This is the same problem as relying on the current directory to be static, although any callback can change it. Therefore using absolute path names is required for a stable program.

MATLAB: How to temporarily avoid figures to be displayed in MATLAB

To avoid showing figures in MATLAB you can start MATLAB using the noFigureWindows option. This option is not available on UNIX.

matlab -noFigureWindows

As an alternative you can change the default figure properties of the MATLAB root object:

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off')

If you want to temporarily suppress new figures that should be accesable later in the same session you can save the figure handle:

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off');
%create invisible figure 1
h(1)=figure;
%create invisible figure 2 
h(2)=figure;
set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','on');
%show figure 1
figure(1)

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