Why am I unable to see the titles of my UICONTROL objects in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1)?

When using UICONTROL, UIBUTTONGROUP, and UIPANEL, I set the "title" property of the function but upon execution I do not see my title. Below is an example of the code I use:

set(0,'defaultUiControlUnits', 'characters');

fig=figure('handlevisibility','callback',...

      'resize','off',...

      'toolbar','none',...

      'name','Optimizer Options',...

      'nextplot','replace',...

      'Numbertitle','off',...

      'menubar','none');

leftPanel=uibuttongroup('Title','Choose Optimization Type',...

     'parent',fig,...

     'bordertype','etchedin',...

     'selectionChangeFcn',@enableReview)

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

We have verified that there is a bug in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14) in the way that "defaultUiControlUnits" are set with the SET function.

To work around this issue, you must explicitly set the 'Units' property for each UICONTROL. Do this by inserting "'units','characters'" as arguments to the UICONTROL function as shown in one of the examples below. The same workaround holds for UIPANEL and UIBUTTONGROUP.

As an example, do not set the 'Units' property with:

set(0, 'defaultUiControlUnits','characters');

If you have already issued the above command you need to first reset this property. To reset the property to the original value use the following:

set(0,'defaultUiControlUnits', 'pixels');

Set the 'Units' property of the control with either

uicontrol(‘units’, ‘characters’);

or

h1 = uicontrol;

set(h1,'units', 'characters');