How can I temporarily avoid figures to be displayed in MATLAB?

I have written a MATLAB application that is creating many figures displaying its results. I do not want have these figures showing up every time I run the application. How can I temporarily tell MATLAB not to create figures?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

To avoid showing figures in MATLAB you can start MATLAB using the noFigureWindows option. This option is not available on UNIX.

matlab -noFigureWindows

As an alternative you can change the default figure properties of the MATLAB root object:

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off')

If you want to temporarily suppress new figures that should be accesable later in the same session you can save the figure handle:

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off');

%create invisible figure 1

h(1)=figure;

%create invisible figure 2 

h(2)=figure;

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','on');

%show figure 1

figure(1)