Matlab guide GUI toogle/push button?

I have been working on a matlab GUI for a while now and have finally gotten it do what I want now I am just working on making a bit cleaner and user friendly. I have 5 panels and have stacked them all on top of each other and have added 5 push buttons on top of the panel. Is there a way to be able to bring a panel to the front by pressing on the push button? (This the easiest way I can think of to make tabs that will jump from panel to panel)

function togglebutton2_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

This is my call back for the push button. Is there anything I can add to bring a panel to the front by simply clicking on the push buttton? Thanks

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Two options off the top of my head. Both of these options would be executed in your pushbutton callback function where you also need access to the panel handles.

Option 1: 'Visible' property

Set all panels to 'off' except for the one "on top" which will be set to 'on'.

set([p1,p2,p3,p4,p5], 'Visible', 'off')
p3.Visible = 'on';

Option 2: uistack()

Put the panel you'd like to see on top of the rest.

uistack(p3, 'top')

The better option is the first one.

[Hector De La Torre]

If i go with option 1 would p1, p2, p2 etc. equal the handle that corresponds to each panel?

For example if the callback for my panel is:

function uipanel1_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)

would my handle be handles.uipanel1 ?

Also if i have 5 push buttons would I have to set all panels off within each individual pushbutton calllback function?

Thanks!

[Adam Danz]

If i go with option 1 would p1, p2, p2 etc. equal the handle that corresponds to each panel?

Yes.

For example if the callback for my panel is... would my handle be handles.uipanel1 ?

Yes, but I think you'd want to set the visibility from the pushbutton callback. In that case, the handles would still be handles.uipanel1, etc.

Also if i have 5 push buttons would I have to set all panels off within each individual pushbutton calllback function?

I think the easiest approach would be create a separate function with two inputs: 1) the handle to the panel you want to be active and 2) the 'handles' structure that contains all handles. In this function you'll turn off ALL panels and turn on the one you want to see.

function togglePanels(activeHandle, handles)
     set([handles.uipanel1, handles.uipanel2, ..., 'handles.uipanel5], 'Visible', 'off')
     set(activeHandle, 'Visible', 'on')

Then, all of your button callbacks will merely call this function.

     function button1Callback(~,~,handles)
         togglePanels(handles.uipanel1, handles)

[Hector De La Torre]

Nice I tried this method and it works but I still have a problem. When I run the script and GUI pops up all my panels are visible. How can I make it so that when I run the script only uipanle1 is up and visible? (Toggling between buttons and does exactly what I wanted to do thanks!)

[Hector De La Torre]

Never mind once I stack the panels on top of each other then I should only be able to see the one on top. Thanks!

[Adam Danz]

You need to initialize the panels with the 'Visible' 'off' property set. If you're using GUIDE, you can open the GUI in GUIDE and set the properties there. An alternative is to call the togglePanels() function from the ..._OpeningFcn().