How can I disable all of the objects in a "uibuttongroup" or "uipanel" at the same time?

I would like to disable all of the objects located inside one of the container objects (uibuttongroup and uipanel). Is there a property of the container that does this?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

As of R2020b onwards, both "uibuttongroup" and "uipanel" components support the Enable property when they are parented to a "uifigure". Refer to the ButtonGroup documentation to learn more about this. 

For releases before R2020b:

The container objects do not have a property that can disable all of its children. However, you can obtain the container's children, and then modify their Enable properties with a single command:

% Here 'c' is the handle to a container object
children = get(c,'Children');
set(children,'Enable','inactive');

 

[Eric Sargent]

As of R2020b ButtonGroup and Panel both support Enable when the button group or panel is parented to a uifigure.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.container.buttongroup-properties.html

Answer 2

[Eric Sargent]

As of R2020b ButtonGroup and Panel both support Enable when the button group or panel is parented to a uifigure.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.container.buttongroup.html

Answer 3

[Wagih Abu Rowin]

For Matlab App Designer 2018 and up you should use 'Enable','off' as:

% Here app.UIFigure is the main handel or container object
children = get(app.UIFigure,'Children');
set(children(isprop(children,'Enable')),'Enable','off')