Creating a figure always gives it focus. The discussion in the other thread is about how to reduce the other circumstances under which the focus might get stolen.
If you set the new figure Visible off and drawnow() almost immediately after you create the figure then you reduce the time during which the focus is at risk. The focus will mostly go back to where it was when you make the new figure visible off, but not necessarily completely reliably. You can reduce the window even more by creating it with visible off: the documentation implies that it would still be temporarily made the current figure in that case, but it can be difficult to tell the cases apart.
