Can't set the current figure inside a function

Hi. I have encountered the following problem: I use a GUI and in the Callback function create new figure, which, obviously, appears at the top of the previous one. However, I need to make the old figure to appear on top, but setting

set(0,'CurrentFigure',old_figure)

at the end of callback function does not work for some reason, i.e. new figure still appears on top (which is little inconvenient for my case). Any suggestions?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

 figure(old_figure)

should raise it and make it current. Setting the current figure is, as best I recall, defined to not raise it.

[Dima]

Thanks a lot, this works)

Answer 2

[Matt Fig]

Try changing the order of the children of root.

figure
figure
pause(1)
% Now fig 2 is on top.
set(0,'children',flipud(get(0,'children')))
% Now fig 1 is on top.