merging two table cells?

I was wondering if there is a way to merge two cells of a uitable. I have a uitable with 6 pairs of variables, thickness and cost, i want to add one more row on top of the headers of these columns so that i have for example Category1(Thickness1, Cost1), Category2(Thickness2, Cost2) etc.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

[dpb]

Not possible; a uitable isn't an Excel spreadsheet. To mimic the effect you could perhaps add another table with only three columns above the one although I've never tried such...it might be simpler to just use text boxes.

[ALEXANDROS]

Okay, thank you very much i will see what i can do!

Answer 2

[Voss]

Not possible to merge cells, but you can make multi-line column headers in a uitable that's in a uifigure, which may be good enough. Run the following examples and see how they look (can't create uifigures here):

N = 6;

f = uifigure();
t = uitable(f,'ColumnName',compose("Category"+(1:N)+"\n"+["Thickness";"Cost"]+(1:N)))

f = uifigure();
t = uitable(f,'ColumnName',compose("Category"+(1:N)+"\n"+["Thickness";"Cost"]))

[ALEXANDROS]

This is similar to what i have done, if you exclude the ("Category" + (1:N)) part. I might leave it as is, i export the table into an excel spreadsheet anyways and i believe the titles are pretty straight forward especially if i add some guide texts somewhere to explain a few things to the user. So i can work with that i guess. Thank very much for your help!

[dpb]

Iffen it's the end result in Excel that is the more important result, then you can use ActiveX and dress up the Excel sheet to your heart's content; you aren't limited to only what the writetable and friends routines can do.