hidem

Hide objects on axesm-based map

Syntax

hidem

hidem(obj)

hidem(objType)

Description

hidem opens a dialog box that enables you to interactively select objects to hide. The hidem function hides objects by setting their Visible property to "off".

hidem(obj) hides the specified objects.

hidem(objType) hides objects of the specified type.

Examples

Hide and Show Objects on Map

Load a MAT file containing the coordinates of global coastlines into the workspace. Create a world map, and then plot the coastline data.

load coastlines
figure
worldmap world
p = plotm(coastlat,coastlon);

Hide the plotted data.

hidem(p)

Show the plotted data again.

showm(p)

Input Arguments

obj — Objects to hide

array of graphics objects

Objects to hide, specified as an array of graphics objects.

objType — Type of graphics object to hide

"all" | "clabel" | "contour" | "fillcontour" | "frame" | ...

Type of graphics object to hide, specified as one of these options.

Option	Description
"all"	All children
"clabel"	Contour labels
"contour"	hggroup containing contours
"fillcontour"	hggroup containing filled contours
"frame"	Map frame
"grid"	Map grid lines
"hggroup"	All hggroup objects
"hidden"	Hidden objects
"image"	Untagged image objects
"light"	Untagged light objects
"line"	Untagged line objects
"map"	All objects on the map, excluding the frame and grid
"meridian"	Longitude grid lines
"mlabel"	Longitude labels
"parallel"	Latitude grid lines
"plabel"	Latitude labels
"patch"	Untagged patch objects
"scaleruler"	Scale rulers
"surface"	Untagged surface objects
"text"	Untagged text objects
"tissot"	Tissot indicatrices
"visible"	Visible objects

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced before R2006a