How do I create a button in a pop up that will allow a user to close all figures?

I have a simulation tools which calls MATLAB functions. These functions produce many plots. The simulation will not stop until I close all the figures.

Is there a way to add a command in a pop up with a button asking the user if he want to close all the figures? I would like yes/no buttons with all figures closing when the user answers yes.

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

choice = questdlg('Would you like to close all figures', ...
  'Close figures', ...
  'Yes','No','No');
switch choice
    case 'Yes'
        disp('All figures closed')
        close all
    case 'No'
        disp('No figures closed')
    end

[Andrew Newell]

Of course, that would close any figures not opened by the tool as well.

[Paulo Silva]

In that case the OP needs to tag the figures or just give them specific names so he/she can know what figures should be closed

[Paulo Silva]

Here's how to tag figures

set(figurehandle,'Tag','myguifigure')

and how to close all figures with that specific tag

close(findobj('type','figure','tag','myguifigure'))

[Saleem Infinity]

Thank you soooo much Paulo :) i have tried the first code and it works fine :) :)

with 'tag' it didn't work with me,I guess I did it the wrong way!

for testing,i create a figure, then i set the property 'tag' as u've mentioned,then if i use findobj,

findobj('type','figure','tag','myguifigure')

Empty matrix: 0-by-1

which is mean object not found?!

findobj('type','figure')

ans = 1

findobj('tag','myguifigure')

ans =171.0059

do i have to edit any other property to make it works?

[Paulo Silva]

It's working fine here but you can use:

close(findobj('tag','myguifigure'))

It will search all objects but the only ones with the tag will be the ones you want to close so it will work the same way.

[Saleem Infinity]

Thank you Paulo for ur reply

i have tried

close(findobj('tag','myguifigure'))

but it give me following error:

Invalid figure handle.

Any idea? :(

[Paulo Silva]

I'm just guessing but it seems that you didn't tagged the figures properly, you tagged axes instead of figures.

[Saleem Infinity]

this is my code actually:

x= -2*pi :1/5:2*pi;

y=sin(x);

h1=plot(x,y);

set(h1,'tag','myguifigure');

close(findobj('type','figuers','tag','myguifigure'))

get (h1)

-----------------

after executing,the figure still open!

and this is the object property:

DisplayName: ''

Annotation: [1x1 hg.Annotation]

Color: [0 0 1]

LineStyle: '-'

LineWidth: 0.5000

Marker: 'none'

MarkerSize: 6

MarkerEdgeColor: 'auto'

MarkerFaceColor: 'none'

XData: [1x63 double]

YData: [1x63 double]

ZData: [1x0 double]

BeingDeleted: 'off'

ButtonDownFcn: []

Children: [0x1 double]

Clipping: 'on'

CreateFcn: []

DeleteFcn: []

BusyAction: 'queue'

HandleVisibility: 'on'

HitTest: 'on'

Interruptible: 'on'

Selected: 'off'

SelectionHighlight: 'on'

Tag: 'myguifigure'

Type: 'line'

UIContextMenu: []

UserData: []

Visible: 'on'

Parent: 170.0105

XDataMode: 'manual'

XDataSource: ''

YDataSource: ''

ZDataSource: ''

[Paulo Silva]

get(h1,'Type') %h1 isn't the figure handle

[Paulo Silva]

Here's an hint about the problem

get(h1,'Type') %ans is line

b=get(h1,'Parent');

get(b,'Type') %ans is axes (line inside axes)

c=get(b,'Parent');

get(c,'Type')

%now you get the handle for the figure

when you plot using the plot function matlab creates a figure with an axes inside, you can create that figure and axes yourself

MyFigHandle=figure;

MyAxesHandle=axes;

set(MyFigHandle,'CurrentAxes',MyAxesHandle);

set(MyFigHandle,'tag','myguifigure');

[Saleem Infinity]

Aha!Ok everything is clear now

Thank you so much for all your help I really appreciate it.

[Brett Shoelson]

If you're looking for the handle of the figure that is the parent of object h, consider the |ancestor| function:

f = ancestor(h,'figure','toplevel');

Cheers,

Brett