Hi,
I understand that you want to return categorical values when the dropdown value changes.
It happens because MATLAB treats dropdown values as editable strings instead of preserving their data type.
To consistently return categorical values, you can consider adding “CellEditCallback” function for your “UITable” component:
function UITable_CellEdit(app, event)
row = event.Indices(1);
col = event.Indices(2);
newValue = event.NewData;
% If the column is supposed to be categorical, convert back
if col == 1 % assuming first column is categorical
validCats = {'on', 'off'};
app.UITable.Data{row, col} = categorical({newValue}, validCats);
end
end
If you have multiple categorical columns, you can maintain a map or array and apply the conversion accordingly.
For more information about callbacks in App designer, refer the following documentation:
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/creating_guis/write-callbacks-for-gui-in-app-designer.html'))
