Plot is making marker at origin

In my gui code for plotting resultant vectors from gravity, when I plot the circles to represent point masses, I'm getting a marker at the origin. I don't know why it shows a marker, but it only seems to do it whenever one point is far enough away from the origin to move the boundary of the graph.

%get user data from gui
plot(x1,y1,'.','markersize',60)
hold on
plot(x2,y2,'.r','markersize',60)
hold off

The problem occurs in the plot, where a 3rd marker is appearing with the characteristics of the last marker created at the origin. How can I remove this 3rd marker from the plot as it is not needed?

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Jared - are x1, y1, x2, y2 scalars or vectors? If they are vectors, then you could very well be replacing the original point, (x1,y1), with the marker depending upon how you are creating x2 and y2. For example,

 figure;
 x1 = 10;
 y1 = 10;
 x2 = [x1 50];
 y2 = [y1 50];

 plot(x1,y1,'.','markersize',60)
 hold on

The above call to plot creates a blue dot at the centre ("origin") of the figure. And once we call

 plot(x2,y2,'.r','markersize',60)
 hold off

because x2 and y2 include the origin of (x1,x2), the original blue dot is replaced with the red marker. Is this what is happening?

[Jared]

 function calc_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to calc (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
%get user data from gui
cla(handles.plot,'reset')
hm1 = findobj('tag','Mone');
hm2 = findobj('tag','Mtwo');
hx1 = findobj('tag','xone');
hy1 = findobj('tag','yone');
hx2 = findobj('tag','xtwo');
hy2 = findobj('tag','ytwo');
m1 = str2double(get(hm1,'String'));
m2 = str2double(get(hm2,'String'));
x1 = str2double(get(hx1,'String'));
y1 = str2double(get(hy1,'String'));
x2 = str2double(get(hx2,'String'));
y2 = str2double(get(hy2,'String'));
%calculates data from points
r = hypot(x1-x2,y1-y2);
G = 6.674*10^(-11);
F = G .* m1 .* m2.\r.^2;
ar = 2;
mag = findobj('tag','magnitude');
set(mag,'string',num2str(F))
urx1 = (x2-x1).\r;
ury1 = (y2-y1).\r;
urx2 = (x1-x2).\r;
ury2 = (y1-y2).\r;
ax1 = ar .* urx1;
ay1 = ar .* ury1;
ax2 = ar .* urx2;
ay2 = ar .* ury2;
plot(x1,y1,'.','markersize',60)
hold on
plot(x2,y2,'.r','markersize',60)
set(gcf,'Units','normalized')
%[figx1, figy1] = dsxy2figxy(handles.plot,[x1,ax1],[y1,ay1]);
%[figx2, figy2] = dsxy2figxy(handles.plot,[x2,ax2],[y2,ay2]);
%annotation('textarrow',[figx1(1),figx1(2)],[figy1(1),figy1(2)],...
%    'String',F)
%annotation('textarrow',[figx2(1),figx2(2)],[figy2(1),figy2(2)],...
%    'String',F)
quiver(x1,y1,ax1,ay1,'MaxHeadSize',.8)
quiver(x2,y2,ax2,ay2,'MaxHeadSize',.8)

Thats my code for the whole function when calculate is pressed. I don't believe they are vectors (unless something in the code is making them so). Is there something in here that is setting the values as arrays

[Jared]

So I unsilenced the x1 y1 x2 and y2 variables, theyre all vectors with values that was input and a zero in the next row. I believe this is due to them being called as doubles. How do I convert the string to just their numeric value?

[Geoff Hayes]

Jared - what happens if you just call

 get(hx1,'String')

without the str2double? What do you observe?

As an aside, you shouldn't have to use findobj to get the handles to your widgets. Just use

 m1 = str2double(get(handles.Mone,'String'));

instead of

 hm1 = findobj('tag','Mone');
 m1 = str2double(get(hm1,'String'));