delete - delete a graphic entity and its children.

Calling Sequence

delete(h)

delete(h,"callback")

delete()

delete("all")

Parameters

• h : a handle, the handle of the entity to delete. h can be a vector of handles, in which case all objects identified by h(i) will be deleted.
• "all" : string keyword (optional).

Description

This routine can be used to delete a graphics entity identified by the handle given as argument. In this case, All children of this graphics entity will be deleted. Without any argument delete removes the current entity. With "all" argument it deletes all the entities of the current figure. The "callback" argument is not yet handled.

Examples

  set("figure_style","new") // select entity based graphics  
  subplot(211);
  t=1:10;plot2d(t,t.^2),
  subplot(223);
  plot3d();
  subplot(224);
  plot2d();
  xfrect(1,0,3,1);
  a=get("current_axes") 
  delete(); //delete the graphics object newly created
  delete(a.children); //delete all children of the current axes
  delete(a); //delete the axes
  delete("all"); //delete all the graphics objects of the figure

 

See Also

get  set  copy  move  graphics_entities  

Author

Djalel ABDEMOUCHE