Close command and Invalid figure handle

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I have a GUI in which I have a button create a plot: p(1)=plot(...).
I have a reset button that, upon being pressed, executes close(p).
When I hit the reset button, I get the error:
??? Error using ==> close at 94
Invalid figure handle.
Error in ==> Pulse>reset_Callback at 870
close(p)
However, while the GUI and p(1) plot figure are open, if I type close(p) in the Matlab Command Window, it closes the figure without any errors. Any idea what's causing this?

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Jan
Jan on 29 Jan 2013
Or:
close(ancestor(p, 'figure'))
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Titus Edelhofer
Titus Edelhofer on 29 Jan 2013
Interesting, another function that I did not know it exists ;-).

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Titus Edelhofer
Titus Edelhofer on 29 Jan 2013
Hi Jared,
you need to close the figure, not the plot. Did you write the GUI using GUIDE? In this case you could write
close(handles.figure1)
assuming you did not assign another tag to the figure ...
Slightly less "nice": just close the figure by
close(gcbf);
where gcbf stands for "get callback figure".
Titus
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Jared
Jared on 29 Jan 2013
I phrased my question wrong. p is indeed a figure, with a plot in it. So I may have p(1)...p(5) figures holding plots, and h(1)...h(5) holding histograms. I was just trying to close all of p or all of h.
Titus Edelhofer
Titus Edelhofer on 30 Jan 2013
Hi Jared,
close(p) should work. If they are all figures, all figures should close. There is a problem of course if at least one entry of p is not a figure (because it has been closed e.g. by the user). What you can do is test this during the call by writing close(p(ishghandle(p)))
Titus

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 28 Jan 2013
Maybe you are trying to close a figure that is already closed. Use
close(p(1))
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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 29 Jan 2013
It does not work from command window. Check this
p(1)=figure
p(2)=figure
close(p(1)) % will close figure1
close(p) % error
Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 29 Jan 2013
How p is stored? when you close a figure, you have to update p:
p=handles.p
close(p(2))
p(2)=[]
handles.p=p

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Shashank Prasanna
Shashank Prasanna on 29 Jan 2013
I don't recommend this at all, but depending on your use-case they may be useful with modifications:
close(findobj('type','figure'))
Closes every figure. Also as Titus mentioned, there is no such thing as a plot object, there are figures, axes, line objects and so on. Plot returns column vector of handles to lineseries objects.

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