how to get the handle of all static texts present in a uipanel to change their backgroung color?

I know how to Change the backgound color of a Static Text.

set(handles.text1,'BackgroundColor','w');

set(handles.text2,'BackgroundColor','w');

But I want to Change the Background of all the Static Texts present in the uipanel. So, how can i get the handle of all the Static Texts and Change their backgound Color at once?

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Harish - you can use the findobj function to get all the handles that match a certain criteria and then change the background colour for each. For example, suppose that you have a pushbutton callback that colours the background red for each of the static texts in your panel. We use findobj as

 function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

 hStaticTexts = findobj('Parent',handles.uipanel1, 'Style','text');
 if ~isempty(hStaticTexts)
    set(hStaticTexts,'BackgroundColor','r');
 end

hStaticTexts is an array of handles to the graphics objects whose parent is handles.uipanel1 and whose style is text.

Try the above and see what happens!

[Harish Babu Kankanala]

Thank you Geoff. It worked.