MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

10 Lay Out a Programmatic UI

3x1 UIControl array:

UIControl (Surf)

UIControl (Mesh)

UIControl (Contour)

The default tab order is the reverse of the child order: Contour, then Mesh, then Surf.

NoteDisplaying the children in this way shows only those children that have their

HandleVisibility property set to 'on'. Use allchild to retrieve children regardless of

their handle visibility.

In this example, the default order is pop-up menu followed by the panel's Contour,

Mesh, and Surf push buttons (in that order), and then back to the pop-up menu. You

cannot tab to the axes component or the static text component.

Try modifying the code to create the pop-up menu following the creation of the Contour

push button and before the Mesh push button. Now execute the code to create the UI

and tab through the components. This code change does not alter the default tab order.

This is because the pop-up menu does not have the same parent as the push buttons. The

figure is the parent of the panel and the pop-up menu.

Change the Tab Order in the uipanel

Get the Children property of the uipanel, and then modify the order of the array

elements. This code gets the children of the uipanel and stores it in the variable, ch.

ch = ph.Children

ch =

3x1 UIControl array:

UIControl (Surf)

UIControl (Mesh)

UIControl (Contour)

Next, call the uistack function to change the tab order of buttons. This code moves the

Mesh button up one level, making it the last item in the tab order.

uistack(ch(2),'up',1);