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Complete pending drawing events
Syntax
drawnow
Description
drawnow
flushes the event queue and updates the figure window.
Remarks
Other events that cause MATLAB to flush the event queue and draw the figure windows include:pause statement
waitforbuttonpress statement
waitfor statement
getframe statement
figure statement
Examples
Executing the statements,x = -pi:pi/20:pi;
plot(x,cos(x))
drawnow
title('A Short Title')
grid on
as an M-file updates the current figure after executing the drawnow function and after executing the final statement.
See Also
waitfor, pause, waitforbuttonpress