How can I disable all of the objects in a "uibuttongroup" or "uipanel" at the same time?
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    MathWorks Support Team
    
 on 27 Jun 2009
  
    
    
    
    
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 on 30 Jun 2025
            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?
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  MathWorks Support Team
    
 on 10 Dec 2021
        
      Edited: MathWorks Support Team
    
 on 3 Mar 2025
  
      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');
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  Eric Sargent
    
 on 9 Dec 2020
				
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 on 30 Jun 2025
  
			As of R2020b ButtonGroup and Panel both support Enable when the button group or panel is parented to a uifigure.
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  Eric Sargent
    
 on 9 Dec 2020
        
      Edited: MathWorks Support Team
    
 on 6 Dec 2024
  
      As of R2020b ButtonGroup and Panel both support Enable when the button group or panel is parented to a uifigure.
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  Wagih Abu Rowin
      
 on 25 Oct 2020
        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')
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