How to permanently hide the toolbar for an axes even after replotting

I've done a lot of searching and I can't seem to find a way to disable showing the axes toolbar. There are some options that work such as turning the toolbar visibibility off or using the axtoolbar function, but they are temporary. What's the official way of telling a specific axes to stop creating the toolbar?

[Hitesh]

Hi Jim Hokanson,

You can try below command:

fig = figure('Toolbar', 'none'); 

However, this will prevent all toolbars from being generated, including the axes toolbar.

[Jim Hokanson]

Hi Hitesh,

This works, surprisingly. To me this seems like it should delete the figure's toolbar (and not impact axes). I am curious how to do this for a specific axes though (although technically this approach would be fine for me).

Thanks,

Jim

Answer 1

[Voss]

You can delete it, e.g.:

delete(gca().Toolbar)

[Jim Hokanson]

This does not work for me trying on Windows 2024a.

[Voss]

Try this instead:

set(gca,'Toolbar',[])

You'll have to do that after all your plotting code because calls to high-level plotting functions (e.g., plot) will cause it to reappear.

[Jim Hokanson]

That is a solution, but it is temporary. Is it not possible to do this permanently until the axes object is cleared?

[Voss]

Use low-level graphics functions such as line, surface, and patch, rather than their high-level counterparts such as plot, surf, and fill. Low-level functions won't cause the axes toolbar to reappear.