Is it possible to disable plot/figure generation in an entire script?

This is more of a trivial request, but it would be convenient for me if there was a setting I could change before running a script that simply squelches all figure and plot creation.

Does anyone know if this type of thing exists?

[gilles miet]

Hi, In case you know which display functions are called, simply overload them by defing new dummy functions with same name and varargin.

e.g. for plot function:

Create a plot.m in current directory or in any custom path directory as follows:

function plot(varargin)

disp('doing nothing');

end

Ignore matlab warnings telling you you overload a Matlab built-in function (you are doing it on purpose)

When plot is called you get:

>> x=randn(1,10);

>> plot(x)

doing nothing

>>

Answer 1

[Doug Hull]

A sneaky way of kind of sort of doing this is:

set(groot,'defaultFigureVisible','off')

To undo this:

set(groot,'defaultFigureVisible','on')

It means the new figures will be visible off. It kind of does what you are looking for, kind of.

[Andrew Reibold]

First off, thanks for the response Doug.

I tried inserting that in the beginning of my script and it didn't seem to have any effect. I didn't get an error.. but I'm still seeing lots of plot generation.

[Sean de Wolski]

In releases before R2014b, this would be:

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','on')

[Andrew Reibold]

Nailed it.

Thanks for the strategy Doug! Thanks for tweaking it Sean!

[Anthony Castellano]

Hi, I have a similar situation. I'm worried that that command will still compute the figures, and then not show them. Is that right?

The reasons I want to not plot my plots is because in some situations I don't want to perform the hefty computation.

[gilles miet]

Hi, see answer to original question: https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/160265-is-it-possible-to-disable-plot-figure-generation-in-an-entire-script#comment_647687

[Adam Danz]

Other options:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/500135-how-to-stop-continuous-pop-up-of-figures#answer_409953