uitable extent is zero in uifigure (not so in figure)

Any idea why the following code returns a table extent of zero? When you replace uifigure with figure, it returns non-zero values like you'd expect.

f = uifigure;
u = uitable(f, 'Data', ones(1,6));
ext = get(u, 'Extent')

[Adam Danz]

Thomas Ewald's comment moved here as an answer.

Having the same issue here. What happend to this and is there a solution or workaround for this?

Answer 1

[Vimal Rathod]

I have brought this issue to the notice of our developers. They will investigate the matter further with a view to resolving the issue in one of our future releases.

[Varun Pai]

Is this issue fixed in any of the future releases ? R2020a and later ?

[Adam Danz]

r2021a still returns all 0s for extent.

Answer 2

[Adam Danz]

As of r2019b, update 4, the Extent property of UITables embedded into a UIFigure still returns [0 0 0 0] but to be fair, Extent is not a documented property of UITables. There are, however, several Position properties (Position, InnerPosition, OuterPosition, etc.).

Interestingly, if a UITable is embedded in a figure produced by the figure() function, the extent property is not all 0s but doesn't seem to relate to the UITable's position or size.