UIpanel within an UIpanel problem

I realized I posted this in a Newsgroup, not the Matlab Answers page:

I am having a uipanel within an uipanel problem

I set

p4 = uipanel

then I set

p4_1 = uipanel,

and

p4_1.Parent = p4

Then I create some uicontrol text, and place p4_1 as its parent.

When I click on the GUI figure and choose the arrow button (to manually move around the text) I can highlight the text, but cannot resize or move it.

Any ideas why this is the case?

Thanks

[Geoff Hayes]

Joe - please attach your code so that we can help (more) with troubleshooting this problem.

[Joe]

 %Creates Variables Panel
    p4 = uipanel;
    p4.Position = [0.0314    0.6406    0.2606    0.1930];
    p4.Units = 'normalized';
    p4.Title = 'Variables';

        %Sub Panel 1
        p4_1 = uipanel;
        p4_1.Position = [0.2841    0.0709    0.6902    0.7039];
        p4_1.Units = 'normalized';
        p4_1.Title = 'Sub Panel';
        p4_1.Parent = p4;

            %Frequency Box
            handles.vibF = uicontrol('Style', 'edit');
            handles.vibF.Parent = p4_1;
            handles.vibF.Units = 'normalized';
            handles.vibF.Position = [0.0295    0.1396    0.2846    0.1915];
            handles.vibF.Value = [];  

            %Vibration Frequency Text
            handles.vibFT = uicontrol('Style', 'text');
            handles.vibFT.Parent = p4_1;
            handles.vibFT.Units = 'normalized';
            handles.vibFT.Position = [-0.0101    0.4072    0.3440    0.0984];
            handles.vibFT.String = 'Frequency [Hz]';

            %Dual Frequency Box
            handles.shotF = uicontrol('Style', 'edit');
            handles.shotF.Parent = p4_1;
            handles.shotF.Units = 'normalized';
            handles.shotF.Position = [0.358    0.1396    0.2846    0.1915];
            handles.shotF.Value = [];  

            %Dual Frequency Text
            handles.shotFT = uicontrol('Style', 'text');
            handles.shotFT.Parent = p4_1;
            handles.shotFT.Units = 'normalized';
            handles.shotFT.Position = [0.3294    0.4072    0.3440    0.0984];
            handles.shotFT.String = 'Dual Frequency [Hz]';

            %Vibration Magnitude Box
            handles.vibM = uicontrol('Style', 'edit');
            handles.vibM.Parent = p4_1;
            handles.vibM.Units = 'normalized';
            handles.vibM.Position = [0.6785    0.1396    0.2846    0.1915];
            handles.vibM.Value = [];  

            %Vibration Magnitude Text
            handles.vibMT = uicontrol('Style', 'text');
            handles.vibMT.Parent = p4_1;
            handles.vibMT.Units = 'normalized';
            handles.vibMT.Position = [0.6630    0.4072    0.3440    0.0984];
            handles.vibMT.String = 'Vibration (+/-) Mag';
  end

[Walter Roberson]

There is no uicontrol() callback to resize or move text. Are you referring to the Object Inspector functionality?

GUIDE might provide a mechanism to change such things while you are in GUIDE, but uipanel nested inside uipanel are not something you can build with GUIDE.

[Joe]

Walter,

Once the GUI is created, I go to the GUI window, click the white arrow and then click on the text I want to move / re-size. Then I can use my mouse to drag around and re-size the object I've selected.

Then I figure out the new Position of that item I moved, and hard code it into the GUI code. The problem is that I can't move / resize the object I selected with my mouse if it's in a uipanel nested inside of another uipanel.

For example, I cannot grab the little blue corner boxes around the Frequency Text box with my mouse. If the text box were in a single uipanel (not nested within another) I would be able to grab the blue corners with my mouse.