Re: [OctDev] Suppresing figure creation

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 24, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 03/24/2012 06:15 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Michael Goffioul
>> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> 
>>> Do you mean something like this:
>>> 
>>> figure ('visible', 'off');
>>> plot (...)
>>> 
>>> Michael.
>> 
>> Thanks Michael,
>> 
>> Can anybody using text based output test that?
>> It works fine in gnuplot and fltk.
> 
> I don't have the latest development version of Octave.  Could someone with a 
> fairly up-to-date version please confirm this works properly?
> 
> figure ('visible', 'off');
> plot([1:50]);
> figure ('visible', 'on');
> 
> I'm not seeing a graph when the figure becomes visible.  Further issuing
> 
> figure ('visible', 'off');
> figure ('visible', 'on');
> 
> causes a new blank figure to appear.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan

You need to pass the figure handle. Otherwise each call will create a new 
figure. The first will be hidden and the second visible.

The commands below should do what you want.

        figure (gcf (), 'visible', 'off');
        plot ([1:50]);
        figure (gcf (), 'visible', 'on');

Ben