Re: executing plot in background

[Bob Odom]

You can use

figure ("visible", "off");

or

set (0, "defaultfigure", "off");

To turn screen printing back on, replace "off" with "on".

This is also handy if you are running remotely and don't want the figures to 
display.


On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Begoña Fuentes wrote:

> Hello everyone,I am trying to save some plots, and for that I am successfully 
> using
> "print" command, printing them to certain .png files.
>
> The problem is that I would like to execute my program in background, without 
> the user
> knowing that some graphs are being plotted. This is: when I launch the .m and 
> the plots
> are drawn just before the print command I don't want to see them. I just want 
> the .m to
> write those graphs in png files.
>
> So is there any possibility of "telling" octave not to show me the plots while 
> they are
> being drawn to a file?
>
> Any help here is quite appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Begoña Fuentes