Handle figures without bringing them to the front

I'm using 'get' to save the name of a figure with:

h = get(figure(n),'Name')

The problem is I want to do this without having the figure window beeing brought to the front. Is there anyway to do this with the figure still minimized or at the back?

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

You can do

h = get(n, 'Name')

but you might want to consider doing something like

hfig = zeros(N, 1);
for n = 1:N
  hfig(n) = figure;
end

h = get(hfig(n), 'name');

This way if you have existing figures, you don't have to worry about offsets to n.

[Jonas]

Yes, ofcourse I dont need the 'figure' bit and can just use n directly.

I obviously need a lunch break :) Thank you!