Trying to create bode plot on a uitab() causes error

I use the uitab and uitabgroup() function for organizing lots of plots into tabs and subtabs. The issue is that bode and frequency-response plots don't work with them.

This is how you'd normally create a tab and plot on it:

figure()
th = uitab('Title','Tab 1');
axes('Parent',th);
plot(rand(10,3))

Doing the same for a bode plot would look like this:

figure()
th = uitab('Title','Tab 1');
ah = axes('Parent',th);
bode(tf(1,[1 1]))

The problem is this generates the following error:

Error using DynamicSystem/bode (line 96)
The name 'Visible' is not an accessible property for an instance of class
'matlab.ui.container.Tab'.

There are heavy-handed ways of creating bode plots in new figures and then copying them over to the tab but that only partly works. Is there any way around this issue? Maybe a way to add the 'Visible' property to the Tab class?

Answer 1

[William Graves]

I actually just solved this myself. While bode plots don't like being placed on uitab, they're fine when put on uipanels. The solution is to place a uipanel on the uitab and then create the bode plot on the uipanel.

figure()
th = uitab();
u = uipanel('Parent',th);
axes('Parent',u)
bode(tf(1,[1 1]))

I'd still consider the initial issue a bug that should be fixed by MathWorks. In the meantime, this workaround isn't too bad.