uitabpanel

A complete implementation of TabPanel for MATLAB

Description

This is a complete implementation of TabPanel for MATLAB, which offers a consistent look and feel to the builtin MATLAB UI objects.

Two types of tabpanels are implemented. The first type is the usual tabpanel with tabs positioned on left/center/right top/bottom in relation to the visible panel. The second one is the so-called "popup" panels. This type of "tabpanels" is common in Windows and Java but has not been seen its use in MATLAB. I found that it is rather convenient in many occasions.

See the screenshot and "uitabdemo.m" to get started.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
Tab panel example, tabpanel, Tab Panel (Yet another one), TabPanel Constructor v2.8 (2010)

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[Benoît Muth]

Outstanding work has been done here. Running the demo and exploring the scripts is enough to judge about the quality of this effort. I am really looking forward to see UITABPANEL implemented as a Matlab class like other objects. Anyway, thank you already!

[Mirjam B]

 

[Aaron Sui]

Wonderful work! However I find it troublesome working with more that one figures.

[Liu Changkun]

Excellent! Very GOOD!

[paolo castiglione]

very good job! I hope newer versions of matlab will implement a tab function.

[Franklin Quilumba]

It is so great...

[Bharathiraja UN]

It is working well.
I wish to suggest to modify line320-321 as follows to avoid some issues faced in resizing.
TopBottomTabResizeCbk(htab,[]);
set(htab,'ResizeFcn',@TopBottomTabResizeCbk);

[Bharathiraja UN]

I am withdrawing my last comment on code modification. Instead, it is better done as follows,
htab = uitabpanel(...
     '...'
    'CreateFcn',@CreateTab,...
    'ResizeFcn',@ResizeTab)
where as ResizeTab is the custom made resize function. Thanks.

[Roi]

 

[Jveer]

good looking GUI

[Saidul Hasnan]

If you find errors when trying to add uitabpanel inside another uitabpanel. You might want to replace the following codes:
           
           cmenu = uicontextmenu;
            uimenu(cmenu,'Label','Goto Tab');
            uimenu(cmenu,'Separator','on');

to...

findfigure=0;
testparent=parent;
while ~findfigure
    
        try
            cmenu = uicontextmenu('Parent',testparent);
            uimenu(cmenu,'Label','Goto Tab');
            uimenu(cmenu,'Separator','on');
            findfigure=1;
        catch
            testparent=get(testparent,'parent');
        end
    
end

cheers,
Saidul Hasnan

[Adrian Wanner]

 

[Spencer Alexander]

Great code! Thanks a bundle!

I had issues with the same line as Saidual... when trying to embed the tabpanel in a figure other than the current figure, errors were being thrown.
I changed line 126 from:
cmenu = uicontextmenu;
to:
cmenu = uicontextmenu('parent',parent);
Any my problems have since gone away.

[Danila]

Excellent implementation!

[Samuele]

Hi, i was wondering if there is a way to switch between tab without mouse clicking. I.e i load some data in a tab and then the program automatically switch to the processing tab without user tab selection. Thank you, samuele

[Sean Blackman]

Hi,

Great functionality! However, I am having trouble getting the Figure Toolbar to recognize the correct axes when they are on different tabs. As soon as I click on the 3D Rotate button and try to click on the desire axes, it changes the CurrentAxes to the first axes created, not the one I have set as active. Any ideas?

Again, great program!
Sean

[Ying]

Very good

[Clayton Chu]

Is there a callback associated with making a tab active? I am really hoping there is, but I can't find one. I want to resize the figure window based on the currently opened tab.