I use saveas or savefig programmatically to save a specific figure to a .fig file. However it save all open figures to this file.

When I open the fig file that was saved I expect to see only the figure that I saved when the file is opened. What I get is all figures that were open at the time I saved the file. This did not happen in older Matlab versions used when this code was written. I am currently using R2018a.

Answer 1

[Mark Sherstan]

Are you specifying the exact figure you want to save? For example:

h = figure(1)
surf(peaks)
savefig(h,'PeaksFile1.fig')

g = figure(2)
surf(peaks)
savefig(g,'PeaksFile2.fig')

etc...

[Stephen23]

Frank Galetta's "Answer" moved here:

Here is the callback that performs the savefig. The figure handle is fig_h. I also tried using gcf in place of fig_h and got the same result. I checked fig_h and it looks like the handle to the correct figure and is not an array of figure handles.

% --------------------------------------------------------------------
function file_save_as_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to file_save_as (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

savePath=pwd; % Get current dir
art_h=guidata(findobj('Tag','trialkeyPopupmenu'));

if exist(art_h.otisPrefs.nbprefs.plotfilesPath,'dir')
    dirTest=exist(art_h.otisPrefs.nbprefs.plotfilesPath);
    if dirTest==7
    cd(art_h.otisPrefs.nbprefs.plotfilesPath);
    end
end

[obj_h,fig_h]=gcbo; % Get object and figure handles of current object
[file,path] = uiputfile('*.fig','Save file name'); % Request file name

if ~ischar(file)
    return;
else
    % Save path to plot file directory in otisPrefs
    art_h.otisPrefs.nbprefs.plotfilesPath=path;

    % Add plotfilesPath to otisPrefs in ART handles
    guidata(findobj('Tag','trialkeyPopupmenu'), art_h);
    
    % Save current otisPrefs structure with figure in UserData
    figUser=get(fig_h,'UserData');
    figUser.fileNameAndPath=[path file];
    set(fig_h,'UserData',figUser);
    
    %Update preferences in figUser with current content of plot labels
    %figUser=update_fig_pref_labels(fig_h,figUser);
    
    % Point to selected dir
    cd(path);

    % Set Name of graph gui and save it as a fig file
    dotIndex=strfind(file,'.');
    filename=file(1:dotIndex-1);
    set(handles.nbFullGui,'Name',filename);
    legend_h=findobj(handles.nbFullGui,'Tag','UntitledNbFullnbFullLegend');
    set(legend_h,'Tag',[filename 'nbFullLegend']);
    savefig(fig_h,file); % Save fig file
    cd(savePath); % cd back to original path
    
    %Update graph names in ART
    current_graph_names(art_h);
end

%Also save the figure as a PDF if specified
try
    if handles.saveFigPdf
        handles.pdfFileName=[filename '.pdf'];
        file_print_pdf_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles);
        handles.saveFigPdf=0;
        guidata(hObject,handles);
    end
catch
end

Answer 2

[Frank Galletta]

Yes I am specifying the figure to saved with the figure handle as the fist argument in the savefig command.

[Mark Sherstan]

Can you please post a sample of your code where you are running into the issue?