Re: Suppresing figure creation

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I been surfing the manual and I can't find (probably lack of the right
> keyword, not lack of content) help relating the suppression of figure
> creation.
> What I mean is the following: is there anyway to call a plot command
> without generating a figure but still creating the graphic object and
> the handle to it?
>
> I need this cause several test blocks in geom2d (package OF geometry)
> check the correctness of the draw* functions by checking the data on
> the handle to the graphic object. However, we do not need the tests to
> generate a figure and it would be nice to prevent the creation of the
> figure. This is also causing some problem to the Debian packagers who
> run tests in text terminal only and get the ASCII output.

Do you mean something like this:

figure ('visible', 'off');
plot (...)

Michael.