Inspector seems to prevent user-defined classes from being cleared when connected to a figure

Question

I am writing a basic GUI using classes in MATLAB. It involves basic uicontrols() and GridLayout components. Normally, if I close the figure and issue a 'clear classes' everything is fine. However, if I inspect the figure created by the class, it seems to keep the objects around to where I cannot clear them. So far, the only solution I have found is to restart MATLAB.

Concerning my code, I do not store references to my class in any controls via 'UserData'.

Has anyone else ran into this sort of problem? Is there another solution to this?

@amro - I assume he means that [`inspect`](http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/inspect.html) command. — eykanal, Aug 17 '11 at 14:41
I see.. As last resort, you could always use `get`/`set` to manipulate the properties on the command line — Amro, Aug 17 '11 at 14:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '11 at 14:41

That sounds very odd, and I cannot reproduce this. Using the following code,

h = figure();
o1 = uicontrol('Style','text','String','hello','position',[ 10 20 80 20]); 
o2 = uicontrol('Style','edit','String','hello','position',[110 20 80 20]); 

inspect(h);

if I close the window, the inspect window goes completely blank. Try this out.

Inspector seems to prevent user-defined classes from being cleared when connected to a figure

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