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Close all figures except those listed

version 1.1.0.0 (1.46 KB) by Karl

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Close all figures except those listed by the user.
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Updated 22 Jun 2009

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Editor's Note: This file was selected as MATLAB Central Pick of the Week

Currently, if you have many figures open at once, but decide you only want to keep one or two of them, you have to manually close all the other figures. This function is a simple tool for keeping the figures you want and closing all the others. Also, called with no arguments, 'cab' is a convenient, three-letter replacement for 'close all'.

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Karl (2020). Close all figures except those listed (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24420-close-all-figures-except-those-listed), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Comments and Ratings (25)

Simon

Simon (view profile)

choong

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Dharmendra Sharma

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Zoe

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J K

J K (view profile)

Thanks! :D

Josh

Josh (view profile)

Love it!

Tunggul Bhirawa

Tunggul Bhirawa (view profile)

Very useful!

paula

paula (view profile)

Thank you!! :)

Fabrizio Schiano

Fabrizio Schiano (view profile)

It works smoothly! I was coding it but then I found this. You saved me 30 minutes :)

Daniel

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Mahak SINGH CHAUHAN

Mahak SINGH CHAUHAN (view profile)

Very nice !! Thanks

Clara

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onur

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THANKS

onur

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Katarzyna Zarnowiec

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Christof Sailer

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Danielle

Danielle (view profile)

Great! Just what I was looking for!

svetlana

svetlana (view profile)

Cool!

Chamane

Chamane (view profile)

Excellent code! Thanks

Karl

Karl (view profile)

Thanks for the improvement, Thierry! The 'cellfun(@fcn, ...)' method, though elegant, unfortunately doesn't work on Matlab 6.x (which some of us still have to use. Sigh.)

Jan

Jan (view profile)

Very handy indeed. And nice tweak, Thierry

Thierry Dalon

Thierry Dalon (view profile)

Good idea!
I prefer to use 0 for gcf or 'last' option.
I've modified the function like this:
function cab(varargin)
% CAB close all but
% This function closes all figures currently open EXCEPT for
% those listed as arguments. 'cab' stands for 'close all but'.
%
% SYNTAX:
% CAB figure_handle1 figure_handle2 ... (command line syntax)
% CAB(figure_handle1, figure_handle2, ...)
% Use 0 for gcf. CAB 0 closes all figures except current one.
% CAB : same as close all
%
if nargin==0,
close all;
return
end

% all_figs = findall(0, 'type', 'figure'); % Uncomment this to include ALL windows, including those with hidden handles (e.g. GUIs)
all_figs = findobj(0, 'type', 'figure');

if iscellstr(varargin) % command line syntax
figs2keep=cellfun(@str2double,varargin);
else
figs2keep=[varargin{:}];
end
figs2keep(figs2keep==0)=gcf;
delete(setdiff(all_figs, figs2keep)

Aurelien Queffurust

Aurelien Queffurust (view profile)

A fantastic short code to save time ! Thanks for this submission!

Michelle Hirsch

Michelle Hirsch (view profile)

I love it. Not sure how I got along for 15 years without it! One small note - the "last" syntax actually keeps the current figure open, which wasn't necessarily the last one created. I love this behavior so much, that I tweaked CAB to do this with no input arguments, too.

Thanks for a simple, elegant, and very useful function.

Itamar

Itamar (view profile)

Cool things. I love it. It is really useful to me as i work with a lot of figures open.

Updates

1.1.0.0

Fixed 'last' option so it actually closes the last figure opened, rather than the current figure.
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Created with R2007b
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