gui_enable_disable_element.m

function gui_enable_disable_element( type, elementHandleArray )
%GUI_ENABLE_DISABLE_ELEMENT Enable or disable one or more elements.
% 
% Arguments:
%   type: 				A string. can be either 'ENABLE' or 'DISABLE'.
%   elementHandleArray  One or an array of handles referring to component(s)
%                        of a GUI.
% 
% GUI_ENABLE_DISABLE_ELEMENT(type, elementHandleArray)
% 
% Copyright (c) 2016 Mohammadreza Khoshbin

validateattributes(type, {'char'}, {})
validateattributes(elementHandleArray, {'numeric'}, {'vector'})
if ~all( ishandle(elementHandleArray))
    error('Some of graphic handles are invalid.')
end
switch lower(type)
    case 'enable'
        option = 'on';
    case 'disable'
        option = 'off';        
    otherwise
        error('The first argument can only be "ENABLE" or "DISABLE".')
end
for i=1:numel(elementHandleArray) %#ok<FORPF>
   set(elementHandleArray, 'Enable', option); 
end
end
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