visible is not a property in class root

I am using matlab r2017a and I want to hide previous plot value. But it gives me an error for set(h,'Visible',off) where h=plot(x,y) by prompting: visible is not a property of class root . It works fine on R2012a. Please provide me a solution for it. Is there any package to be installed or any other way

[Aniruddha Katre]

This syntax should still work in R2017a. One possibility is that you did not use single quotes around off. Instead of

set(h,'Visible',off)

it should be

set(h,'Visible','off')

Alternatively, since you are using one of the recent releases, you can also try

h.Visible = 'off'

If this doesn't resolve the error, please post a screenshot of the exact lines of code and the exact error message.

Answer 1

[Jan]

The error message occurs, if h=0:

h = plot(1:10, rand(1,10));
pause(2);
set(h, 'Visible', 'off')

Works. But:

h = 0;
set(h, 'Visible', 'off')

produces the error you see. So please set a breakpoint in the failing line and check, if h has been changed unexpectedly.

Post the relevant part of the real code.

[nikhil nambiar]

Thanks a lot. It worked fine. But why dint it show any error inmatlab R2012a