@Luis – I discuss adding a close button to uitabs here: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/uitab-colors-icons-images
Note that it might or might not work, depending on your Matlab release. In any case note that it only works with uitabs in the Java-based figures, not web-based uifigures.

@Eric – of course, you can use HTML, much as for uitables (as I explained here)

uitab('Title','Line #1
Line #2')

Add a <center> tag if you want the tab label to be centered:

uitab('Title','Line #1
Line #2')

Do you know of any means to create a uitab with two lines of text that are on top of one another. Uitab does not accept cell arrays when called the “Title” property i.e. uitab(‘Title’,{‘Cat’;’Dog’}) gives an error. Even when doing uitab(‘Title’,[‘Cat’;’Dog’]) creates a tab with the title ‘CDaotg’ for some reason. Any insight would be helpful.

-Eric

@Limo – I suggest that you contact Malcolm Lidierth, to ask him about this. He wrote Waterloo and could probably answer your question directly.

also first of all thank u for all these amazing posts, they are so helpful!
and i’m trying to make a scrollpane,which basicly use the same trick in GScrollpane of Waterloo (inner & outer & slider…), but i hope all uicontrols can be hidden when they should be… So i tried to use a uitab as the inside pane, cause uitab is from ‘JTabbedPane’ and in this way, lightweight, and then added all uicontrols on it.

I thought theoretically it should work (lightweight Panel & lightweight uicontrols), but sadly it didn’t. Any idea why?

bests,
limo

@Sebbo – as I noted in the article, Matlab releases up to 2010 had this problem with java controls. This problem has been fixed in either R2010a or R2010b (I forget which).

thanks!. Though this is a rather old post I found this quite helpful.
I seem to be having a problem though with using uitabs as parents for other ui-elements.
For instance, when I append this one line to your example:

    t = uicomponent( tab1, 'style', 'JTextField', 'Text', 'Hello');

The result JTextField still remains visible after switching to tab2.
I seem to be having the same issue with more complex java controls too.

Any idea on how to solve this?

cheers,
sebastian

@Gina – thanks: I fixed the link in the post.
It is http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/modifying-matlab-look-and-feel/