How to display units in table in a GUI?

It used to be possible to make a second row in a table header. This was useful for writing out units, for example. This does not seem to be possible in the app designer apps. Is there another way to display units in a table in a GUI made in app designer?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

[Subhadeep Koley]

Hi Jouni,

It seems not possible to add a second row in the table header in App Designer. Also, when you create a table in app designer. It gets created under uifigure parent and column names are restricted to one line of text. Therefore, you cannot add a second line for the units / examples also.

But when you create a table directly without specifying any parent (using the uitable() function) then default parent is a MATLAB figure and the uitable is created for which column name property supports "|" to get the multi-line column name, where the second line can be used for the units / examples.

[Subhadeep Koley]

One workaround:

Paste the following code in the startupFcn callback of your app to create a table with multi-line column header. Here, sprintf(__) with \n escape sequence is used to create multi-line column header.

% Create the UITable component
UITable = uitable(app.UIFigure);

% Specify row and column name
UITable.ColumnName = {sprintf('First\nEntry'); sprintf('Second\nEntry'); sprintf('Third\nEntry')};
UITable.RowName = {}; 

% Populate the table with some random data
UITable.Data = rand(3);

% Set the table position
UITable.Position = [148 224 302 108];