How to set the relative order of figure objects
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From: Yehonathan Segev on 28 Jan 2010 06:45 I'm trying to show a "pcolor" plot with a regular type plot as an inset. If I add any annotation it hides both plots. Is there a way to control the relative order of appearance (who obstructs who) as you would say in windows Office by changing the "order" of the objects? Thanks
From: Ryan on 28 Jan 2010 08:11 There is a function available on the file exchange for adding a button to the figure tool bar which allows you to re-order the children. If you look at the code you'll see how it can be done. http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/18136-addreorderbuttons
From: Yehonathan Segev on 28 Jan 2010 08:27 Thank you. The suggested solution does not work with annotations so a filled rectangle will always stay on the front. "Ryan " <ryan.pearson(a)removethis.astrium.eads.net> wrote in message <hjs2d6$mlp$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > There is a function available on the file exchange for adding a button to the figure tool bar which allows you to re-order the children. If you look at the code you'll see how it can be done. > > http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/18136-addreorderbuttons
From: Walter Roberson on 28 Jan 2010 11:58 Yehonathan Segev wrote: > I'm trying to show a "pcolor" plot with a regular type plot as an inset. > If I add any annotation it hides both plots. Is there a way to control > the relative order of appearance (who obstructs who) as you would say in > windows Office by changing the "order" of the objects? For any particular object, the 'children' of the object are drawn from last to first. You can get() the children and set() a new order for them, or you can use the uistack() function to do the manipulation for you. Note: there is an exception to this, which is that for the OpenGL renderer, if there are multiple objects in the same plane, the order will not be paid attention to. Matlab documents the drawing order for this case, but there is evidence that some implementations exactly reverse that order. The fix for this situation is to move one of the objects slightly in the Z plane.
From: Yehonathan Segev on 28 Jan 2010 12:55
What I'm trying to do is to stack a pcolor, an annotation rectangle and a line plot (at this order). I think the problem is that an annotation rectangle is considered at a higher level than the plot axes and therefor always stays on top. |