clf

Arguments

numFig

Vector of indices of figures to clear or reset (.figure_id values). By default, the current figure is targeted.

figFrameHandle

Vector of handles of figures or frame uicontrol to clear or reset. Mixing figures and frames is possible. By default, the current figure is targeted.

"reset"

Provide this option keyword to reset properties of chosen figures to their default values, in addition to deleting the figures contents.

Description

The clf command can be used to delete all children of a given graphic window, hence clearing it. If the "reset" keyword is used, in addition most of the figure properties are reset to their default values. The detailled changes are now described:

1. The following default actions are always performed:
   • All visible and invisible axes of each targeted figure or frame are deleted.
   • All menus whose figure.children handles are not hidden are deleted. It is possible to protect them with set(get(0), "ShowHiddenHandles", "off"). This then applies to all opened figures and forthcoming ones. See ShowHiddenHandles.
   • The message in the status bar of each figure is cleared.
   • The event handler of each figure is disabled, but their references are kept .

   Values of all figures properties are unchanged, except .info_message="" and .event_handler_enable="off" that are forced.

2. "reset": in addition to default actions, "reset" resets most of figures properties to their default values, as specified by gdf(). This applies only to figures.

   Some properties are never reset: The figure's number .figure_id is kept as is. .toolbar, .menubar, .layout, .layout_options, and .dockable can be set only once and so are never resettable. For docked figures: .figure_position, .figure_size, and .axes_size are unchanged if the parent figure is docked to the Scilab's desktop or to another Scilab interface. Changing their value would change the position or size of the whole block of docked interfaces, not only the targeted figure.

Examples

f4 = scf(4);  //creates figure with id==4 and makes it the current one
f4.color_map = jetcolormap(64);
f4.figure_size = [400, 200];
plot2d()
sleep(4000)   // wait and see for 4s
clf(f4, "reset")

f0 = scf(0); //creates figure with id==0 and make it the current one
f0.color_map = hotcolormap(128); // changes color map
t = -%pi:0.3:%pi;
plot3d1(t,t,sin(t)'*cos(t));

clf        // is clf(gcf(),"clear"). Keeps the current color_map
plot3d1(t,t,sin(t)'*cos(t));

clf reset  // resets the color_map to the default one with 32 colors
plot3d1(t,t,sin(t)'*cos(t));

fr = uicontrol("Style", "frame", "Position", [20 20 200 200]);
a = newaxes(fr);
plot(1:10);
clf(fr);

See also

• figure properties — description of the graphics figure entity properties
• ShowHiddenHandles — Description of console object properties.
• frames — create a Graphic User Interface object
• menus — Create a menu or a submenu in a figure
• gcf — Return handle of current graphic window.
• gdf — Return handle of default figure.
• colordef — Set the color look-and-feel of a given or of all forthcoming graphic figures
• delete — delete a graphic entity and its children.
• close — Closes graphic figures, progression or wait bars, the help browser, xcos, the variables browser or editor.
• clc — Clear Command Window
• clear — kills variables

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