MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Table Array Data Types in App Designer Apps

NoteOnly App Designer apps and figures created with the uifigure function support

table arrays. For information on displaying table data in traditional figures, see

“Programmatic App that Displays a Table” on page 13-2.

Table arrays are useful for storing tabular data as MATLAB variables. For example, you

can call the readtable function to create a table array from a spreadsheet.

Table UI components, by contrast, are user interface components that display tabular

data in apps. Starting in R2018a, the types of data you can display in a Table UI

component include table arrays.

When you display table array data in apps, you can take advantage of the interactive

features for certain data types. And unlike other types of arrays that Table UI

components support, table array data does not display according to the ColumnFormat

property of the Table UI component.

Logical Data

In a Table UI component, logical values display as check boxes. true values are

checked, whereas false values are unchecked. When the ColumnEditable property of

the Table UI component is true, the user can select and clear the check boxes in the

app.

f = uifigure;

tdata = table([true; true; false]);

uit = uitable(f,'Data',tdata);

Table Array Data Types in App Designer Apps