Is there an easy way to display a "table" in Matlab GUI?
I am saving reports from my system in matlab as tables generated by the command table()
. To display these tables I used disp(myTable)
. It was fine when I was only looking at the tables in the shell.
However, now I want to create a GUI that will display these tables along with graphs and other information. I found out that I can display strings in static text GUI elements by doing
set(handles.staticText1, 'String', 'My text! Yay!')
...
However, I cannot find an easy way to turn the data stored as a table into a table.
Is there an easy way to display tables in a GUI or do I need to manually fetch all columns from the table?
EDIT: Ok, so I found a way to store the table in a row:
tableString=evalc('disp(table)')
But the result is a disaster and doesn't look like the neatly formatted string I get in the shell.
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Here's a kind of hack with uitable , which creates a UI table component in the GUI. "uitable" is built from the elements of an existing table. The following GUI has a button, and after clicking it, the UI table is created and placed inside the GUI at a specific location. Then you can play with it.
function MakeTableGUI
clear
clc
close all
%// Create figure and uielements
handles.fig = figure('Position',[440 400 500 230]);
handles.DispButton = uicontrol('Style','Pushbutton','Position',[20 70 80 40],'String','Display table','Callback',@DispTableCallback);
%// Create table
LastName = {'Smith';'Johnson';'Williams';'Jones';'Brown'};
Age = [38;43;38;40;49];
Height = [71;69;64;67;64];
Weight = [176;163;131;133;119];
BloodPressure = [124 93; 109 77; 125 83; 117 75; 122 80];
handles.T = table(Age,Height,Weight,BloodPressure,'RowNames',LastName);
function DispTableCallback(~,~)
%// Place table in GUI
uitable(handles.fig,'Data',handles.T{:,:},'ColumnWidth',{50},'ColumnName',{'Age','Height','Weight','BloodPressure'},...
'RowName',LastName,'Position',[110 20 300 150]);
end
end
This is how it looks after clicking the button:
So, as you can see, the important part is that you are positioning the table intelligently so that it does not appear above other elements of your GUI.
Hope it helps!
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