I'm developing a matlab gui using R2010b.  The gui has a uitable.  By following the hints here (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/268448#702699) I have made clicks on the uitable select an entire row.

The code to do this is below:
hJScroll = findjobj(handles.tblParamsets); % findjobj is from file exchange
hJTable = hJScroll.getViewport.getView; % get the table component within the scroll object
hJTable.setNonContiguousCellSelection(false);
hJTable.setColumnSelectionAllowed(false);
hJTable.setRowSelectionAllowed(true);
set(handles.tblParamsets, 'CellSelectionCallback', '...'); % from GUIDE

The problem I'm having is that once I turn on the non-contiguous cell selection property of the Java object, selecting rows in the uitable no longer triggers the cell selection callback.  If I don't set this parameter to false, the cell selection callback still fires, but I can't constrain the user to select entire rows of the table.

Has anyone solved this problem in the past?  If so, how?

Really all that I want to happen is (a) for the user to be able to select entire rows of the table, and, (b) have a callback that'll tell me which row was selected.

Thanks,
Adam

Hi all,

I figured this problem out myself a few weeks back but thought I'd share my solution just in case anyone else has the problem in the future.

I used one the callbacks defined for the JTable object as the matlab callback didn't seem to be triggering after I messed with the properties of the JTable object.

So I added something similar to this to my original code:
hJTable = handle(hJTable, 'CallbackProperties');
set(hJTable, 'MousePressedCallback', {@MyCellSelectionCallback, gcf});

....and then I defined my callback function...
function MyCellSelectionCallback(hObject, eventData, currFig)
% commands to so stuff on selection of a table row

Thanks. This came in really handy for me!

I also used tips from this thread: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/165066

In particular, the 6th message which says:

"> Is there a way to tell what cells are currently selected?

mtable = uitable(gcf, magic(3), {'A', 'B', 'C'});
jtable = mtable.getTable;
row = jtable.getSelectedRow + 1; % Java indexes start at 0
col = jtable.getSelectedColumn + 1;

If multiple cells are selected, you might want to use
getSelectedRows and getSelectedColumns which return an array
of int32 indexes (0-based).

Yair"

"Adam " <adam@noneedforspam.abc> wrote in message <ik203g$nql$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi all,
> 
> I figured this problem out myself a few weeks back but thought I'd share my solution just in case anyone else has the problem in the future.
> 
> I used one the callbacks defined for the JTable object as the matlab callback didn't seem to be triggering after I messed with the properties of the JTable object.
> 
> So I added something similar to this to my original code:
> hJTable = handle(hJTable, 'CallbackProperties');
> set(hJTable, 'MousePressedCallback', {@MyCellSelectionCallback, gcf});
> 
> ...and then I defined my callback function...
> function MyCellSelectionCallback(hObject, eventData, currFig)
> % commands to so stuff on selection of a table row