Re: Help with axes 'layer' property

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 15, 2014, at 8:13 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:

> 4/15/14
> 
> I think Octave has the axes 'layer' property exactly reversed.  The values,
> 'top' and 'bottom', seem to refer not to the axes object but to the
> children of the axes object.  So, when you set the layer property to 'top'
> you are really putting the child objects in front of the axes object and
> placing the axes object at the bottom.
> 
> If someone can run this example on Matlab and report back I would be grateful.
> 
> plot (1:10, '-or', 'linewidth', 6);
> set (gca, 'xminorgrid', 'on', 'minorgridlinestyle', '-');
> get (gca, 'layer')
> ## What is the default?  Should be bottom.

Yes, the default is "bottom"

> set (gca, 'layer', 'bottom')
> ## Is the red line in front of, or behind, the black minor grid lines?

The red line is in front of the grid

> set (gca, 'layer', 'top')
> ## Now, is the red line in front of, or behind, the black minor grid lines?

The red line is behind the grid.

Ben