In the above case, 5 is the handle. When you GET it, you are actually losing the handle that you want. Look at his example.

a = figure(1)
handle = a
notHandle = get(a)

-Doug

thank you for your postings and videos. i really like them. i have now a question regarding this posting here. how can i get the handle into a variable?

i identify the figure i need using get(0,’children’) and then checking the name of the figure.

now, if i know that my figure is the nr. 5 for example, how can i get the handle to it?

handle = get(5);
set(handle,’Name’,'test’)

returns an error. handle is in this case not the handle, but the structure of the properties of the figure.

thank you very much,

tom