I want to have a popup menu as column format on a uitable and the popup list will be feeded by a variable. Is this possible?

I have a uitbale with 6 columns. I want to have a popup menu as column format at 5th column at the uitable and the popup list will be feeded by a variable. Is this possible?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

uitable() cannot read the current content of a variable to determine the popup menu to display. You need to set() the appropriate entry of the uitable ColumnFormat property to the cell array of strings that you want to use for the popup entries each time the variable changes.

popup_column = 7;   %for example
col_fmt = get(MyUitable, 'ColumnFormat');
col_fmt{popup_column} = Variable_with_new_entries
set(MyUitable, 'ColumnFormat', col_fmt);

[Kelly Kyriakou]

It works but when I select one item of the popup list I get the following warning "Warning: Table data is not editable at this location.". However, I have already defined columns to be editable with the following code " set(handles.uitable3, 'columneditable', true,true,true,true,true,true);" What's my mistake?

Thank you very much

[Walter Roberson]

set(handles.uitable3, 'columneditable', [true,true,true,true,true,true])

Also, you just might need to set() that after each time you change ColumnFormat

[Walter Roberson]

When you specify fewer logical values than there are columns, the remaining columns are assumed to be false (not editable)

[Kelly Kyriakou]

Now it works!!! Thank you very much