Prevent "background" axis from having focus

Hi, sometimes I have a large axis in a figure window, which serves as a "background" (e.g. suplabel.m), and other axes containing plots inside its position bounds.

Is there a property to set for this "master axis" so that it never gets focus, e.g. when attempting to zoom in on data in one of the smaller axes?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No there is not. However, if you set the HitTest property of the axes to 'off' then the user would not be able to click on it with the mouse.

[Mark T]

Hi. Thanks for the advice. I tried setting the HitTest property (as well as setting the current axis back to one of the others), but a test with the zoom still chooses the master axis (Matlab 7.5.0).