Delay the Creation of Figure Windows?

Hello,

I'm running a simulation after which about 15 plots are created using a separate script dedicated to generating plots. Most of these plots contain a few subplots each with multiple lines and most are plotted using the plot3 function.

It is a little annoying to see each figure window popup as its running through the plotting script. Is there a way to delay the actual creation of the figure windows until the very end?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Set the 'visible' property of the figures to false as soon as you create them. See if that keeps them from popping up. Then set them all to true when you're ready

set(gcf, 'Visible', 'False');
drawnow;

[John R.]

Good approach. Although once I set them all to visible they still popup one at a time; although they popup slightly faster than before. Perhaps there is no way for all of the figure windows to popup at once? Could be a operating system limitation.

[Image Analyst]

If you can fit them all on the screen at once, you can put the axes in a panel that's invisible. Then make the panel visible and they should all appear at the same instant.