two figures popping problem??

when I make a figure with an axis I always get another figure appearing. How to stop the second one?is it because the drawnow command?

figname = figure( );

ax = axes('Parent', figname,'XLim',[0 200],'YLim',[0 200]);

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drawnow()

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I copied and pasted your code:

figname = figure( );
ax = axes('Parent', figname,'XLim',[0 200],'YLim',[0 200]);
drawnow()

and I only get one figure window. You must be doing something additional to cause the additional figure window to appear.