title: Bring axes to front without redrawing the figure?
body: <p>Is there a way in Matlab to bring an axes to front without having Matlab perform a redraw (<code>drawnow</code>) implicitly?</p>
  
  <p>Background to my question:
  I am preparing a large figure with several subplots. In some of them I have 2 axes superposed, because I want to see the same data on 2 different y-scales. 
  After playing around with axes settings, I finally got the figure to look like I expected. </p>
  
  <p>But: I need to bring one of the axes to front (in my case, the left axes hAxL). 
  So I have this line in my code: <code>axes(hAxL);</code>
  This works, but, it seems that Matlab not only brings the axes to front, but also redraws the figure.</p>
  
  <p>That's a pity because I am preparing the entire figure with <code>'visible','off'</code> to accelerate it. The implicit <code>drawnow</code> blows my idea and makes the figure popup several times, which is annoying and takes the code longer to execute... </p>
  
  <p>I have already tried this: <code>set(gcf ,'CurrentAxes',hAxL)</code>, but it only makes <code>hAxL</code> the current axes and does not bring it to front. 
  Any idea on how to solve this?</p>