BackgroundColor property errors and GUI compatibility with 2014b v 2010a

I am receiving the following error while running a GUI (written by a previous colleague):

Error using hguitabgroup
There is no BackgroundColor property on the TabGroup class.

Error in usev0tabgroup (line 13)

Error in uitabgroup (line 25)
h = usev0tabgroup(varargin{:});

Error in gixsgui>gixsimana (line 2497)
    hTabGroup = uitabgroup('Parent',hFigImana,'BackgroundColor',panelcolor);

Error while evaluating UIControl Callback

This GUI works perfectly on an older version of MATLAB (2010a) run on a Windows Vista PC. I recently switched to a Mac, updated my MATLAB to 2014b and now cannot get some of the GUI functionality.

From what I can tell, this is a problem with background colors in the uitabgroup, but I am not familiar enough with the program or the code to solve the problem and have not been able to contact the person who wrote the GUI.

Is this a Mac vs PC color compatibility problem, or something else?

Thank you for any help!

[Dan Nyandeni]

I have a similar problem. did you manage to sort it out? If so, How did you manage?