How can I get the index of the selected item in a pop-up menu within a uitable?

I have set up a column as pop-up menu in my uitable as follows:

f=figure;
choices={'A' 'B' 'C' 'A'};
t=uitable(f,'ColumnFormat',{choices}, 'Data', {'';'';''} ,'ColumnEditable',[true]);

I would need to know the index of the selected item within my array choices in uitable's CellEditCallback. I.e., if the user selects 'C' from the menu, the index would be 3. The array of choices can have duplicate values, so I cannot simply use strcmp to match the selected value.

J.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Well written question

f=figure;
choices={'A' 'B' 'C' 'A'};
t=uitable(f,'ColumnFormat',{choices}, 'Data', {'';'';''} ,'ColumnEditable',[true],'celleditcallback',@(src,evt)disp(evt));

This should make it pretty clear.

[J. Jotakin]

Thanks, but I was not looking for the indices of the changed table cell. Instead, I would need to know the index of the chosen value within the array of possible choices, which is specified in ColumnFormat. The eventdata structure does not seem to have this information.

The problem is that the pop-up menu within an uitable does not have anything like the 'Value' property of an uicontrol pop-up menu.

Answer 2

[Matt Fig]

I don't see how to do this. The best I can suggest to you is to use this file to dig into the underlying JAVA (or don't duplicate strings in the popup!)