Using Tabs in Combination of Panels with Guide

I have created a GUI (with Guide) and added code to add tabs to the guide. In addition I will add a panel that corresponds to each tab. Basically I want to set the 'parent' of each panel to the corresponding tab when the gui is created. I have found a way to disable the tabs and all their 'children' including the objects in each corresponding panel. There's only 1 problem in Guide. I would have to create each panel consecutively (on top of each other - they'd be the same size) with all the controls completely added in each panel. Then, move to the next panel, hoping I don't have to go back to the previous panel to adjust any uiobjects or properties. I know I can add code at the beginning of the program, but it is much easier to change these visually. Is there a way to navigate through panels or some type of "layers" that bring certain objects & their corresponding 'children' to the front in Guide? I saw the object browser, but there is not a way to separate or move objects from on panel to the next with this. Is there a better way to visually manage this "layering" issue that I am not aware of?

Here's the code for creating the tabs and assigning the corresponding tab as a 'parent' to the panel:

    % % Begin initialization code - DO NOT EDIT
gui_Singleton = 1;
gui_State = struct('gui_Name',       mfilename, ...
                   'gui_Singleton',  gui_Singleton, ...
                   'gui_OpeningFcn', @Menu_Tabs_Ideas_OpeningFcn, ...
                   'gui_OutputFcn',  @Menu_Tabs_Ideas_OutputFcn, ...
                   'gui_LayoutFcn',  [] , ...
                   'gui_Callback',   []);
%if nargin && ischar(varargin{1})
    gui_State.gui_Callback = str2func(varargin{1});
%end

%if nargout [varargout{1:nargout}] = gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:}); %else gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:}); %end % End initialization code - DO NOT EDIT

% --- Executes just before Menu_Tabs_Ideas is made visible. function Menu_Tabs_Ideas_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin) % This function has no output args, see OutputFcn. % hObject handle to figure % eventdata reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB % handles structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA) % varargin command line arguments to Menu_Tabs_Ideas (see VARARGIN)

% Choose default command line output for Menu_Tabs_Ideas handles.output = hObject;

% -------------------------------------------------------------------- % Inserting Tabs for Program \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ % -------------------------------------------------------------------- % 1) Creating Tab Group & Handles handles.hTabGroup = uitabgroup('Parent',hObject); % 2) Supressing Warning (newer matlab versions will handle tabs differently) s = warning('off', 'MATLAB:uitabgroup:OldVersion'); % 3) Creating Tabs & Handles handles.tab1 = uitab(handles.hTabGroup, 'title','Bridge Selection'); handles.tab2 = uitab(handles.hTabGroup, 'title','Date'); handles.tab3 = uitab(handles.hTabGroup, 'title','FFT Sensors'); handles.tab4 = uitab(handles.hTabGroup, 'title','Temperature Sensors'); handles.tab5 = uitab(handles.hTabGroup, 'title','Analysis Options'); handles.tab6 = uitab(handles.hTabGroup, 'title','Output Options'); % 4) Created Panels for Each Tab (Every other object will be placed in % these in order to handle parent child relationships better) % Each Tab must be created with guide in order from beginning to % end or one can not set(handles.Tab1_Panel,'Parent',handles.tab1);

% I haven't created these panels yet \/ I want to see if these can be visually % managed % set(handles.Tab2_Panel,'Parent',handles.tab2); % set(handles.Tab3_Panel,'Parent',handles.tab3); % set(handles.Tab4_Panel,'Parent',handles.tab4); % set(handles.Tab5_Panel,'Parent',handles.tab5); % set(handles.Tab6_Panel,'Parent',handles.tab6);

% ****************************************************************** % -------------------------------------------------------------------- % Code I don't want to use in this program!!! \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ % -------------------------------------------------------------------- % This is a radio button I want to move to tab 2 potentially but was % created in Tab1_Panel set(handles.Select_All_Bridges_Radio,'Parent',handles.tab2);