Variable amount of checkboxes in listbox (programmatic GUI)

I have in my programmatic GUI the following listbox:

        h.listbox = uicontrol('style','listbox','units','pixels',...
                              'position',[10,175,200,200],...
                              'string',components_index);

The entire program gives me the following output:

What I now want, is that in front of every stock, I have a checkbox. Keep in mind that the amount of stocks is variable.

Can anyone point towards a solution?

Thanks in advance,

Jonathan

Answer 1

[Adam]

I don't think that is possible with Matlab UI controls. However, if you don't mind doing some experimentation with undocumented controls, the following information on Yair Altman's excellent blog may help:

http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/using-jide-combo-boxes/

[Jonathan]

I eventually went for uitable. YIDE combo boxes is a bit difficult for my programming skills :P. But thanks!

If anyone is interested, using the following code will give want I wanted.

components_index = {'one1','two2','three3'};
h.table = uitable('units', 'pixels', 'position', [10, 100, 200, 200], ...
                         'columnname', {'Yes/No'},...
                         'columnformat',{'logical'},...
                         'ColumnEditable', true,...
                         'rowname',components_index,...
                         'data',false(numel(components_index),1));

[Adam]

Yeah, I've shied away from the hardcore Jide UI programming too for now and have also been using uitable of late. I don't like it at all and it took me probably as long to get right as Jide would, but it does a job so glad you got that to work for you.

Answer 2

[Yair Altman]

There are actually 2 built-in controls that you could use within Matlab:

1. com.jidesoft.swing.CheckboxList
2. com.mathworks.mwswing.checkboxlict.CheckBoxList

Usage example (more details in my Matlab-Java book):

jList = java.util.ArrayList;  % any java.util.List will be ok
jList.add(0,'First');
jList.add(1,'Second');
jList.add(2,'Third');
jList.add(3,'and last');
jCBList = com.mathworks.mwswing.checkboxlist.CheckBoxList(jList);
jScrollPane = com.mathworks.mwswing.MJScrollPane(jCBList);
[jhCBList,hContainer] = javacomponent(jScrollPane,[10,10,80,65],gcf);
set(jCBList, 'ValueChangedCallback', @myMatlabCallbackFcn);
jCBModel = jCBList.getCheckModel;
jCBModel.checkAll;
jCBModel.uncheckIndex(1);
jCBModel.uncheckIndex(3)

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