How to move figure window to front of all programs?

Is there a way to force a figure window to show in front of all other windows (not just Matlab ones, but other programs)?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If you are using MS Windows you could experiment with using the 'topmost' command in Jan's File Exchange contribution https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/31437-windowapi

[Brandon]

Works perfectly! I was already using WindowAPI for some things so this is even better. Thank you.

Answer 2

[Raph]

This question is ambiguous, but I think what "most people" would be looking for searching for an answer to this question are the following:

How to bring to the front a specific figure handle?

h = figure;
h2 = figure;

% bring figure with handle h to the front 
figure(h); 

How to bring to the front a known figure with a given name?

figure('Name','A cool figure'); % create a figure and assign a unique name
allfigs = findall(0,'Type', 'figure'); % finds the handles of figures
desiredHandle = findall(allfigs, 'Name', 'A cool figure'); % finds the handles of figure with the unique name

if numel(desiredHandle)==1 % make sure its not deleted or actually is a valid handle
    figure(desiredHandle(1));  % brings to front
end