Change the uitabgroup's tab color or font color?

Is it possible to change the uitabgroup's tab color or font color? e.g. I set the background color of uitabgroup to dark, so it would be better to set the color of tabs also to dark than the default light gray color.

Thanks

[Dynamite Schanes]

I'm looking for the same thing. I'll let you know if I find anything!!!1!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

h = uitabgroup();
set(h, 'defaultUitabForegroundColor', [.2 .3 .4])
t1 = uitab(h, 'Title', 'Test 1');

get(t1, 'ForegroundColor')

Setting the font color is more difficult, and I have to ask "font for what, exactly" ?

[Robert]

This sets the background colour of the tab's pane, but not of the tab itself (the thingy you click to make the tab's pane visible), at least not with R2018a. And as defaultUitabForegroundColor is not listet by 'get' nor documented for 'uitabgroup' nor listed or accesible by/through the dot-syntax: where would one find a list of such clandestine parameters?

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/default-property-values.html

At the moment, I cannot see any way of altering the color of the part of the tab that you would click on to bring the tab into foreground. The color of the text of the tab name is controlled by the ForegroundColor property of the uitab, but the blue background around the text I cannot find any setting for.

[Robert]

Thanks for the honest answer, Walter.

[Marc Youcef]

App Designer 2020a, and this looks to not be available yet. I agree, it definetely look ugly to have tab itself in a different background color that can't be changed...

[Amor Yassine]

2020a and still facing this problem

[Lorenzo Corso]

2020b and still facing this problem

[Eric Delgado]

Nothing yet...

[Omer Akatekin]

still nothing..

[Nathan Kimmitt]

waiting

[Eric Delgado]

Why not put a panel with buttons in front of the tab control?!? The buttons callbacks emulate the tab selection. An app designed in Matlab doesn't need to be ugly! :)

[Adam H]

R2022b, same issue still.

Answer 2

[George Baltas]

Had the same problem. I am trying this for couple days now, almost thought about re-writing the whole GUI programmatically just to make my tabs behave the way I want. I hope next Matlab version will include this