When the root ‘ShowHiddenHandles’ option is set ‘on’, a text object tagged as 'temphackytext' associated with a figure legend is not automatically deleted in MATLAB 7.11 (R2010b)?

I set the root ‘ShowHiddenHandles’ option to ‘on’ and create a legend in the current axes. I see an extra text object tagged as 'temphackytext' in the 'children' associated with the legend object.

Reproduction steps:

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

plot(1:10,rand(1,10));

L=legend('test');

H=findobj(L,'type','text');

disp(get(H,'tag'));

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The second text object is a dummy text object used by the legend to compute spacing. A work around is to manually delete the text object "temphackytext" when the legend creation is complete.

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

plot(1:10,rand(1,10));

L=legend('test');

H=findobj(L,'type','text');

delete(H(strcmp(get(H,'tag'),'temphackytext')));  % Delete the object tagged as 'temphackytext'

H_new=findobj(L,'type','text');

disp(get(H_new,'tag'));