How do I create a function (located in a separate file) that puts an interactive axes in a GUI tab (with the GUI defined in a script)?

I created a ML GUI script similar to the following:

fig1 = figure;           % Window for GUI
tbgp = uitabgroup(fig1); % Create a tab group for that window
t1 = uitab(tbgp, 'Title', 'tab1'); % Create first tab under 'tbgp'
t2 = uitab(tbgp, 'Title', 'tab2'); %Create 2nd tab under 'tbgp'

Now, I want to add 2 "interactive" axes/plots, each with different properties, in both of the tabs defined above. I can write code in the script, but I'd like to do this using a function defined in a separate file located on the same ML path(so that I can just call the function whenever I want a similar interactive plot on something. In this case, I want the plots on two different tabs).

<IN A SEPARATE FILE>

function showInteractivePlot( desiredTab )
   axes(desiredTab);  % Draw axes on the desired tab
   pan(fig1);         % I want to enable panning on the axes located on the 'desiredTab', which 
                      % is itself located in fig1
end

In the end, I would like to do the following in my GUI script:

    fig1 = figure;           % Window for GUI
    tbgp = uitabgroup(fig1); % Create a tab group for that window
    t1 = uitab(tbgp, 'Title', 'tab1'); % Create first tab under 'tbgp'
    t2 = uitab(tbgp, 'Title', 'tab2'); %Create 2nd tab under 'tbgp'

    % Add interactive plot to t1
    showInteractivePlot(t1);  

    % Add interactive plot to t2
    showInteractivePlot(t2);

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

A uitab is not an axes, but an axes may be contained within a uitab.

Assuming that you want to create the axes within the tab, then

function showInteractivePlot( desiredTab )
  ax = axes('Parent', desiredTab);  % Create axes on the desired tab
  h = pan(ancestor(desiredTab,'figure'));  %panning needs to be turned on for the figure
  setAllowAxesPan(h, ax, true);      %enable panning for this axes
end

[Minh Tran]

Thanks! The call to ancestor() was handy!