GUIDE hack to UITABS not quite working as expected

Hello, I have tried to follow the link below to "hack" a uitab group using guide. In short it uses panels that are assigned to a uitab group.

https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/218801-created-tabbed-gui-in-guide

However, following the exact instructions yields:

when I use the following, it seems to hide everything else on my main figure called GUI1.

handles.tgroup = uitabgroup('Parent', handles.GUI1,'TabLocation', 'top');

and when I change the line above to:

pos=get(handles.P1,'Position')
handles.tgroup = uitabgroup('Position', pos,'TabLocation', 'top');

I get the correct location as well as the rest of mycomponents on my main figure being visible now, but everything is squashed up on the panels.

[Adam]

Looks like something where you would need to play around with the units and check the relative positions of components within a panel. It's not something I would ever want to do though, especially in your case where the tabs are just part of a UI rather than filling the whole UI as in the original example. I have always used programmatic GUIs and the GUI Layout toolbox for doing tabs in a UI.

It should be possible to keep the components of a panel in the same relative positions when you re-parent the panel though if you do it correctly.

[Jason]

thanks, I think its simpler to just overlap the panels and set their visibility to on or off via a checkbox