Copying existing .fig files into Panel

I'd like to use Panel from the File Exchange instead of subplot so I can have more control over the margins between subplot figures. I have a number of existing Matlab .fig files I'd like to put in a grid.

However, when I use copyobj to copy the children from a .fig file into an existing panel ( p = panel() ), I get the resulting error:

fig1 = openfig(char('file.fig'), 'reuse');
>> copyobj(allchild(get(fig1, 'CurrentAxes')), p(1,1));
Error using copyobj
Line cannot be a child of panel.

This method also results in an error:

>> fig1 = get(fig1_gca, 'children');
>> copyobj(fig1, p(1, 1))
Error using copyobj
Axes cannot be a child of panel.

Is there a better way to open existing .fig files and copy them into Panel?

Answer 1

[Max Murphy]

Sorry if this answer is too late to help you, but it looks like in your examples above you were trying to copy children of an axes object into a panel. In your first example, you could copy the axes (fig1_gca, from second example) into the panel p(1,1), or you could create a new axes in p(1,1) and copy the children of fig1_gca into that axes.

I had a similar question and this was my solution:

oldFigFiles = {'oldFig1.fig'; 'oldFig2.fig'}; 
nOldFig = numel(oldFigFiles);

newFig = figure('Name','oldFig contents in tabs');
tg = uitabgroup(newFig);
t = gobjects(nOldFig,1);
p = gobjects(nOldFig,1);

for i = 1:nOldFig
   oldFig = openfig(oldFigFiles{i});
   c = get(oldFig,'Children');
   
   % Move contents of oldFig into current tab
   t(i) = uitab(tg,'Title',oldFigFiles{i});
   p(i) = uipanel(t(i));
   copyobj(c,p(i));
   
   delete(oldFig); % close old figure
end