uitable formatting (cell borders, color,comma style)
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Hello,
Questions on uitable:
1) how to add cell borders on the table(data area)? I tried to use findjobj, but not sure which one to call in here http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/14317
2) how to add color on column and row header(not the BackgroundColor/ForegroundColor), if it is possible.
3) how to change data format, so instead of 2e+04, I prefer 20,000 (the comma style)
This one already found a reference. http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-35XMQ9/?product=ML&solution=1-35XMQ9 And to align numbers in the table, refer to http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2928.
Anyone knows how to code all that? Thanks in advance!
Accepted Answer
Walter Roberson
on 13 Aug 2012
You can use HTML in the columnname parameter.
columnname = {'<FONT color="green">Rate</FONT>', ....}
The leading '<HTML>' must be present for this to work.
I do not know that you can affect the cell borders. You could experiment with using HTML for the data cell array (which requires that the entries be strings), but since the HTML affects only one cell at a time, I do not know if you will be able to affect the borders.
4 Comments
Zoe Zhang
on 13 Aug 2012
Walter Roberson
on 13 Aug 2012
You would probably want /BODY instead of /FONT
In practice the closing HTML tags can be left off:
'<HTML><BODY bgcolor="green">Rate'
Azzi Abdelmalek
on 13 Aug 2012
it's just the string which is colored, then if you have string with differents length, you will have different colored width, which is not presentable
Zoe Zhang
on 13 Aug 2012
More Answers (2)
Babak
on 13 Aug 2012
1 vote
Open the GUI with GUIDE first, then double click on the table. A window named property inspector will open up.
Property inspector for uitable has a few options like "column editable". If you click ont he right side of this option, a new window named "Table Property Editor" opens up.
In the forth pane of this window you can setup the colors.
In the first pane named "columns" you can see the columns you have created (or if you have not yet created any column you can start creating them here) there is a place where it says "Format" where if you click on the optionsyou can change the data type of the data you put in the columns.you can even create a custom data type.
Hope that helps but I don't understand why one needs to add grid in the cells of the table and never heard of it.
4 Comments
Zoe Zhang
on 13 Aug 2012
Babak
on 13 Aug 2012
Hi Zoe, Here is an example from MATLAB's documentation: Pay attention to columnformat logical for the format of the data in the table. You can create a similar table propert named: "BackgroundColor" and then set the background color of the cells with this option. Now I understand what you want to do with the borders of cells but I don't know how I never seen this option in GUIDE.
f = figure('Position',[100 100 400 150]);
dat = {6.125, 456.3457, true, 'Fixed';...
6.75, 510.2342, false, 'Adjustable';...
7, 658.2, false, 'Fixed';};
columnname = {'Rate', 'Amount', 'Available', 'Fixed/Adj'};
columnformat = {'numeric', 'bank', 'logical', {'Fixed' 'Adjustable'}};
columneditable = [false false true true];
t = uitable('Units','normalized','Position',...
[0.1 0.1 0.9 0.9], 'Data', dat,...
'ColumnName', columnname,...
'ColumnFormat', columnformat,...
'ColumnEditable', columneditable,...
'RowName',[]);
Zoe Zhang
on 13 Aug 2012
Azzi Abdelmalek
on 13 Aug 2012
% h=uitable(...)
to set a color
set(t,'BackgroundColor',[.8 .5 .9],'ForegroundColor',[0 1 0]);
%[0 1 0] RGB color
2 Comments
Zoe Zhang
on 13 Aug 2012
Himanshu Verma
on 19 May 2020
Zoe Zhang, did you find any solution to the above question you've asked? I need to change the font color of each row with different colors without using 'uistyle' and 'addStyle'. Also, html code doesn't seem to be working with uifigure (works with figure);
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