Partially-overlapping subplots cause plots beneath to be totally invisible

When I plot multiple subplots on a figure, and the subplots' position vectors have partial overlap, the later subplots cause the earlier ones (partially beneath) to not display at all. How do I set the transparency so that overlapping subplots do not prevent the earlier ones from being visible? Thank you.

Answer 1

[dpb]

It's more than that. From the subplot doc 'Tips' section:

"If a subplot specification causes a new axes object to overlap any existing axes, subplot deletes the existing axes object and uicontrol objects."

It isn't just occluding the underlying plots, they've been deleted.

What you can do is illustrated in an example for subplot...

figure
y = zeros(4,15);
for k = 1:4
    y(k,:) = rand(1,15);
    subplot(2, 2, k)
    plot(y(k,:));
end
hax = axes('Position', [.35, .35, .3, .3]);
bar(hax,y,'EdgeColor','none')
set(hax,'XTick',[])

As given in the example, the barplot axes covers up the corners of the four subplots...you can change that behavoir somewhat by

set(hax,'color','none')

and get

instead. That help, maybe???