TabManager - Create Tab Panels (uitabgroup) from a GUIDE GUI

Convention based method which allows a tabbed GUI to be designed using GUIDE

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Grant (2026). TabManager - Create Tab Panels (uitabgroup) from a GUIDE GUI (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/54705-tabmanager-create-tab-panels-uitabgroup-from-a-guide-gui), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Inspired: POT for LTI systems, Simple Optimized GUI Tabs

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  • Compatible with any release

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  • Windows
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  • Linux
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1.6.0

Tab Order of children now maintained (was reversed).
Nested tabs supported (Thanks Timon)
TabManagerExample updated to show both changes.

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1.5.0

The background colour of a placeholder panel is now copied to its corresponding uitab.

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1.4.0

Changed the example (TabManagerExample.m) to show how to add a SelectionChangedFcn to the tab group so that a program can be notified when a user selects a tab.

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1.3.0

A descriptive error message is now generated if a pane representing a tab is a child of the main pane (or another "tab" pane).

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1.2.0

Modified the tab manager example to demonstrate how to select a tab from code and added a note to the TabManager class to describe how to do this.

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1.1.0

typo in description

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1.0.0

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