App designer - prevent axes figure from popping up

I am trying to create an app using the App Designer. When I place an Axes on my GUI, at run-time the Axes is displayed as a figure.

I do not want this to occur. The Axes should not pop-up as a figure at run-time, nor should it be visible until a button is pressed.

How can I prevent the Axes from displaying in a figure at run-time? I am not calling any functions, so I'm not sure why this is occurring.

Thank you.

[Adam]

How are you placing your axes? Are they placed in the design view of App Designer?

Also do you have any code in a startup.m file with dodgy instructions related to gca or gcf related to figure or axes creation functions?

[SBakc]

Thank you for responding. I have placed the axes in the design view of the App Designer.

I have not used gca or gcf.

When I delete the axes in the design view, no figure pops up. As soon as I add one in the design view a figure pops up. Could it be a UIAxes setting that I am overlooking?

[Adam]

Hmm, in R2019b I get an error even just placing an axes in the design view so I can't get any further than that testing it out!

[Ned]

what kind of error?

[Sarlota Duskova]

Hello, I think I have same problem. I have placed axes in the Design View of the App Designer and when I want to plot data from one file it works fine but when I want to plot data from two file in loop it shows graph and also it pops up empty graph in new figure. This is my code.

T = getappdata(0, 'table')

nFiles = getappdata(0,'figure');

if(nFiles>0)

hold on;

for ii=1:nFiles

table = vertcat(T{ii})

plot(app.UIAxes,table.Var1,table.Var2);

end

else

plot(app.UIAxes,T.Var1,T.Var2);

end

Answer 1

[Ned]

Uncheck the Visible property of the Axes in the Component Browser.

To make it pop back up, use

app.UIAxes.Visible = true;

in your button callback.