[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45943] commands shg and figure(N) (where figure N exists) fail to bring figure window to foreground

[Tasos Papastylianou]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #45943 (project octave):

Drawnow does not bring a plot window to the foreground in Matlab; it just
silently "flushes" graphical output in the background; I believe it does so on
all existing figure windows rather than just the current one, but I may be
wrong.

Matlab's shg implementation is simply

figure(gcf)

which would make sense to replicate on octave.

It might seem like a silly command to have around, but it's very useful to
append to commands when lecturing live on Windows, where the window manager
doesn't have a 'keep window on top' option. Nick Trefethen at Oxford seems to
be particularly in love with this little command in his lectures :p

So the main bug here (if it could be considered a bug) is the fact that the
figure command does not bring a figure window in the foreground as expected.

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