Using the delete
function, I can delete the object handle but it also removes the object properties from the variable.
Is there a way to delete the object handle without touching to the variable properties?
For example, I have two plots like below and I delete the first one.
figure;
h1 = plot( 1:10, '*' );
hold on
h2 = plot( 2:5, '.' );
delete( h1 );
h1.XData % returns an error, handle has been removed
The h1
object handle has been removed from the figure as expected but all the h1
properties (XData
, YData
) also have been removed. Is there a way to keep the h1
properties? Do I necessarily need to back up the properties before using delete
?
Instead of deleting h1
, simply hide it:
h1.Visible = 'off';
And you can see the data is still there:
>> h1.XData
ans =
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10