Plotting figures using figure handles

hello guys, i need your help in solving the following problem: i have an open figure and i have done the following:

      fig = gcf;

now i have closed the figure and i want to plot what is inside fig. Is this possible without saving the figure in .fig file? If yes then how can it be done?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[dpb]

Once it's closed, it's gone and the handle, despite the variable still holding the value, is bogus.

Only replotting from the raw data or, as you say, saving to a file will preserve it for posterity.

[dpb]

I suppose an enhancement request could be made for a handle to become a full-fledged "deep" copy but I doubt it would be considered. An alternative would be an encapsulated function that does such automagically that can be done with effort via findobj and copyobj