copy from UITABLE to clipboard not working

I have a UI table, I used to be able to copy from it to the windows clipboard, but now it no longer copies. I have absolutely no idea what has changed nor where to look for the problem. Any thoughts on where the problem might be?

thanks Greg

Answer 1

[Gregory McFadden]

it actually was some kind of "as currently running" issue. Restarting matlab fixed the issue.

Answer 2

[xi]

You may want to change the uitable property of 'ColumnEditable' from true to false. When it is true, you can edit, but can't copy the whole table to clipboard (can only copy one cell at a time). When it is false, you can't edit, but can copy the talbe. I usually add a toggle button beside the uitable, so that users can switch between copy mode and edit mode. I'm not sure if this is the problem you encountered.

[Walter Roberson]

Interesting, I did not know that.

[Bruno Luong]

All my ColumnEditable is set to FALSE and I can't copy on clipboard, and this is on R2020b. So nothing is improved since 3 years and half.

Generally sometime my App just hangs. Frustrating. All the App business is still far from being mature for any production code.

Back to the GUI.

[Subhamoy Saha]

Yes, changing editable mode will allow to select multiple cells but not help in copy the tabledata. Better to save the data using writetable at frequent interval (manually or using timer) to avoid loss of data. What I follow is to save the data as soon as it is updated. But might be not suiatable for very frequent table data update cases. Looking forward for better solution.

I was using GUIDE created GUI for controlling instruments and recording data. Currently tried to shift to appdesigner but it is too slow in calculation, plotting etc. Miles to go to be useful in reallife applications.

Answer 3

[Feng]

i also have this problem with 2019b. has anyone found a solution?

[Luna]

2018b same here! Can we just do multiple editing just as we can do in an excel workbook?

I am absolutely sure that there is no built-in property or callback method for uitable to do it.

I searched FEX for it and couldn't find any helper functions to do that also.

[Feng]

This is frustrating. I have tried many different ways but still can't get around this issue...

[Feng]

Matlab has confirmed the function is missing for uitable and hopefully this will be addressed in the next release. in the meantime, use clipboard for it but i won't copy the format of the table.

[Luna]

I think writing our own copy to clipboard function and calling it in cellSelectionCallback will solve. But I haven't tried yet. I will give a feedback asap.

[gaoyi guo]

It is a crucial problem that the Clipboard fcn is unable to retain the format of data in uitable. Xlswrite may be the best workaround for now. But usually, I only need to copy the data so that I can paste them freely to Excel files.

[Kent Schonert]

Feng, is there a bug report # or similair for the missing function?

I am using the latest patch for 2019b and it still does not work. 2014b works fine though. It seems that in order to support both versions I will need to detect if Matllab is > 2018b(?) and insert the a workaround.

[Feng]

I got a workaround from mathworks. The person who solved this for me is:

Tej Patel

Mathworks Technical Support Department

good luck!

[Nachiketa Chauhan]

Can you share the workaround?

Answer 4

[Subramaniam Arasakesari]

Feng / Tej,

I have the same issue. Can you share the work around.

Thank you

Subra.