MATLAB: Enable/Disable uitabs in uitabgroup, with v2015b

Question

In a GUI, is there a way to disable/enable a tab created by uitabgroup / uitab.

In a GUI I'm building, I would like to prevent the user from accessing some tabs at earlier stage of the process, and then grant access later when some operations are done in the GUI.

In following example:

fig=figure();
tabgroup=uitabgroup('Parent',fig);
tab1=uitab(tabgroup,'title','title1');
tab2=uitab(tabgroup,'title','title2');

I would like to disable tab2 (something like set(tab2,'Enable','off') would be nice).

It was possible with previous release (I tested with v2013a) using the following sequence:

jtabgroup=getappdata(handle(tabgroup),'JTabbedPane');
jtabgroup.setEnableAt(1,0);

… but I can't make it work using v2015b.

Thank you,

Antoine

Answer 1

To access the underlying Java object, use FindJObj.

Try replacing

jtabgroup=getappdata(handle(tabgroup),'JTabbedPane');
jtabgroup.setEnableAt(1,0);

With

jtabgroup=findjobj(tabgroup);
jtabgroup.setEnableAt(1,0);