Thread Subject: Simulink Icon Modification

hello,

is it possible to set or change the opaque order of masked
referenced models in such a way that icons will overlap on
the model screen? basically, what i want to do is overlap
several masked blocks (icons) with a main block. my problem
is that everytime the main block is in the foreground while
the other blocks are in the background. how is it possible
to change or set blocks into background / foreground?
i know this isn't the normal way of modeling and that
usually the main block 'd contain all the minor system
blocks, however, the model should also be used for
presentation purposes, so i have no other choice.

i appreciate any help.

regards,
stefan

"Stefan Leier" <stefan.leier@diehl-aerospace.de> wrote in
message <g0rdkl$k9i$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> hello,
>
> is it possible to set or change the opaque order of masked
> referenced models in such a way that icons will overlap on
> the model screen? basically, what i want to do is overlap
> several masked blocks (icons) with a main block. my problem
> is that everytime the main block is in the foreground while
> the other blocks are in the background. how is it possible
> to change or set blocks into background / foreground?
> i know this isn't the normal way of modeling and that
> usually the main block 'd contain all the minor system
> blocks, however, the model should also be used for
> presentation purposes, so i have no other choice.
>
> i appreciate any help.
>
> regards,
> stefan
>


The stacking order of blocks is determined by name (except
in some special cases). Many Simulink demos take advantage
of this when the grouping of blocks visually adds useful
information.

The examples that come to mind are in the Communications
Blockset

>> commcnvencoder

I think blocks are stacked in descending character order...
so lower case z is drawn first to lower case a, then upper
case Z to upper case A. Special characters fall into the
order based on their char value.

>> char(33:126)
ans =
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

I hope this helps.
-Seth

Thank you Seth,
everything is working now :)

Stefan