delete — delete a graphic entity and its children.
delete(h)
delete(h,"callback")
delete()
delete("all")a handle, the handle of the entity to delete. h can be a vector of
handles, in which case all objects identified by h(i) will be deleted.
string keyword (optional).
This routine can be used to delete a graphics entity identified
by the handle given as argument. In this case, All children of
this graphics entity will be deleted.
Without any argument delete removes the
current entity. With "all" argument it deletes
all the entities of the current figure.
The "callback" argument is not yet handled.
subplot(211);
t=1:10;plot2d(t,t.^2),
subplot(223);
plot3d();
subplot(224);
plot2d();
xfrect(1,0,3,1);
a=get("current_axes")
delete(); //delete the graphics object newly created
delete(a.children); //delete all children of the current axes
delete(a); //delete the axes
delete("all"); //delete all the graphics objects of the figure