Set focus inside an UI figure

I am trying to programatically set/change the focus to a specific component (typically a button) within an UI figure, created in AppDesigner. Any ideas?

[Xiangrui Li]

I am looking for a solution to set off focus for a uifigure component. In figure, I simply use uicontrol(dummyText) to move the focus to a dummy text, but this is not available to uifigure. For now, I use a dumb method to move focus away: java.awt.Robot() to move mouse to empty area, do a Robot mouse press and release, and move mouse back to original location. To focus to a uibutton, you can move mouse to the button, press, move back to orginal location, then release mouse. I say it dumb, since uifigure tries to stay away from java.

[Adam Danz]

There are some new tools in MATLAB R2022a to set tab order and focus to UI components.

See Summary of methods across releases.

[Johan]

Great, thank you