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Contents

Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Basic Plots and Graphs

• Plotting Tools

• Annotating Plots

• Specialized Plotting

• Bit-Mapped Images

• Handle Graphics

• Graphics Object Identification

• Object Creation

• Annotation Objects

• Plot Objects

• Figure Windows

• Axes Operations

• Object Property Operations

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Release Notes

root object - Root

Description

The root is a graphics object that corresponds to the computer screen. There is only one root object and it has no parent. The children of the root object are figures.

The root object exists when you start MATLAB; you never have to create it and you cannot destroy it. Use set and get to access the root properties.

Object Hierarchy

See Also

diary | echo | figure | format | gcf | get | Root Properties | set

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