Radio Buttons in panel

I created two radiobuttons on panel in GUI through script.I can select both at the same time (ie) selection is not removed when another radio bttn is selected.

Even I checked the parent of both radio button. It is same.

f1=get(findall(0,'Tag','English0'),'Parent')

f2=get(findall(0,'Tag','Metric1'),'Parent')

f1 and f2 both are same Then why a normal radio buttons functionality in single panel is not achieved?

Please suggest ideas.

Answer 1

[Matt Tearle]

Panels are basically just cosmetic. Use a uibuttongroup to manage the exclusivity behavior you want. Compare:

figure
pnl = uipanel('position',[0.1 0.1 0.5 0.5]);
b1 = uicontrol('parent',pnl,'units','normalized','position',[0.1 0.1 0.8 0.4],...
    'style','radiobutton','string','I am a choice');
b2 = uicontrol('parent',pnl,'units','normalized','position',[0.1 0.5 0.8 0.4],...
    'style','radiobutton','string','I am a choice');

versus

figure
pnl = uibuttongroup('position',[0.1 0.1 0.5 0.5]);
b1 = uicontrol('parent',pnl,'units','normalized','position',[0.1 0.1 0.8 0.4],...
    'style','radiobutton','string','I am a choice');
b2 = uicontrol('parent',pnl,'units','normalized','position',[0.1 0.5 0.8 0.4],...
    'style','radiobutton','string','I am a choice');

[Salaheddin Hosseinzadeh]

I rarely made GUI with a scripting, I used GUIDE the most.

What's the advantage of assigning a parent for radio buttons? Is it something that has to be done?! Or is it possible not to assign a parent at all?

Regards, ;)

[Matt Tearle]

You don't have to specify parents to most graphical objects, but it's a recommended practice because it ensures that things end up where you expect them to. In this case, you really want the radio buttons to be inside the button group, because that manages the exclusivity.

[Vivek]

@ salaheddin: Imagine such a situation where you want to hide a set(say >20) of buttons and unhide a different set of buttons.

In this case, hiding/unhiding its parent is enough. So always recommended to create buttons for single requirement at panel(parent).