Re: moving graphic objecs

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 15, 2010, at 11:09 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi, is there a way to move one graphic
> object in front of another, say a line
> object in front of a patch object?
> In MATLAB one can do this with the
> uistack command, but there is no equivalent
> in Octave. Is there a workaround?
> 
> Someone mentioned changing the children
> property, but how exactly does that work?
> --
> Mayer

I tried changing the order of the children for Octave 3.0.5 and 3.2.3, but the 
rendered result did not change.

Changing the order for the current developers sources does work.

I'm not able to check 3.2.4 at the moment. But you can try ...

set (gca, 'children', flipud (get (gca, 'children'))

Ben