Re: moving graphic objecs

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 15, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Andy Buckle wrote:

>> 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'))
> 
> Did not work for me on 3.2.4 (now linux)
> 
> \> plot([0 1],[0 1],'linewidth',5,'color','r'); hold on;
> \> plot([1 0],[0 1],'linewidth',5,'color','g')
> \> set (gca, 'children', flipud (get (gca, 'children')) )
> error: set: new children must be a permutation of existing children

I don't see that error for 3.0.5 or 3.2.3, so I assume it only occurs for 3.2.4.

Ben