MATLAB: How to change Matlab GUI components color

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I want to make a dark mode, normal mode feature in userpanel with Radio buttons in my GUI panel with the code like down below. I can change panel backgroundcolour, but how can I adapt this code for other parts like below?

uibuttongroup, text, pushbutton (foregroundcolor, backgroundcolor, highlightcolor)

that works good;

set ( gcf, 'Color', [0 0 0] )

at these examples I'm getting error;

set ( edit1, 'Color', [0 0 0] )
set ( edit1, 'BackgroundColor', [0 0 0] )
set ( edit1, 'ForegroundColor', [0 0 0] )

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fatih - what is the full error message that you are observing? Are you using GUIDE, App Designer, or have you created your GUI programmatically? If using GUIDE, then you will need to use the handles structure to reference your edit1 control

set(handles.edit1, 'BackgroundColor', [0 0 1]);

The background color can be changed. Programmatically this can be done as

hEditControl = uicontrol('Style','edit');
set(hEditControl, 'BackgroundColor', [0 0 1]);

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MATLAB: How to create a function to change the color of a pushbutton

You can simply use cell11_Callback as callback function for all buttons, but use hObject instead of the hardcoded "handles.cell11". Or if you have any reason not to do this, you can call the function from other callbacks also:

% As you have posted already, but with hObject instead of the hard-coded
function cell11_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
color=get(hObject,'BackgroundColor');
if(color==[0.94,0.94,0.94])
  set(hObject,'BackgroundColor',[0,0,0]);
elseif(color==[0,0,0])
  set(hObject,'BackgroundColor',[0.94,0.94,0.94]);
end
% And for the next button
function cell12_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% Call the other callback, but use the current hObject:
cell11_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

By the way: This is shorter:

color = get(hObject, 'BackgroundColor');
set(hObject, 'BackgroundColor', abs(color - 0.94));

MATLAB: How to cause a change in the colour of a push button every time it is pressed

function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to pushbutton1 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
colors = [ 1 0 0; 0 1 0; 0 0 1]  %this will be your array of colors
if hObject.UserData == size(colors,1)
    hObject.UserData = 0 %if it reaches the end, reset
end
hObject.UserData = hObject.UserData + 1; %stores this data within the button itself
state = hObject.UserData;
hObject.BackgroundColor = colors(state,:);
%note: ForegroundColor is the color of the string, BackgroundColor is the color of the button

make sure you set the 'UserData property of your button to 0 for its initial state, example :

button = uicontrol('style','pushbutton',...
    'callback',@pushbutton1_Callback,...
    'UserData',0)

In this example, button will turn from red, green, blue, then the cycle repeats.

Can you be clear as to what you mean by 'saves its state?'

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