MATLAB: Is there a simple way to get the figure handle having any child object

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I have clicked an object, get its handle with gco. This could be the figure handle itself, one of the axes in this figure or an axes child object depending on where I click. The command findobj searches downward. Is there a similar command to find the objects figure?

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MATLAB: Handles.

It depends on how it was defined:

handles.num = 15

Now "handles" is a struct containing the field "num", which has the value 15. But if your define "handles" as object, it could be something different.

So please take the time to investigate it yourself:

class(handles)
whos('handles')
methods(handles)

If I dare to guess, "handles = guidata(FigureHandle)" might be the creator of the struct "handles". If so, see "help guidata" for more details.

MATLAB: How to find the handle of a figure object, which was inserted by using the figure menu in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

The objects in a figure which were inserted by using the figure's 'Insert' menu are created in an additional invisible axes and their handles are hidden by default. You can disable handle hiding by setting "ShowHiddenHandles" property to 'on' and using FINDOBJ function as in the following example code:

% Show all figure’s hidden handles.
set(0,'showhiddenhandles','on')
% Obtain the handle for line using its 'Type' property
h = findobj(gcf,'Type','hggroup');

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