Can't set the current figure inside a function

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Hi. I have encountered the following problem: I use a GUI and in the Callback function create new figure, which, obviously, appears at the top of the previous one. However, I need to make the old figure to appear on top, but setting
set(0,'CurrentFigure',old_figure)
at the end of callback function does not work for some reason, i.e. new figure still appears on top (which is little inconvenient for my case). Any suggestions?

Accepted Answer

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 4 Nov 2012
figure(old_figure)
should raise it and make it current. Setting the current figure is, as best I recall, defined to not raise it.

More Answers (1)

Matt Fig
Matt Fig on 4 Nov 2012
Try changing the order of the children of root.
figure
figure
pause(1)
% Now fig 2 is on top.
set(0,'children',flipud(get(0,'children')))
% Now fig 1 is on top.

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