Copy data from table created by MATLAB GUI

I have a table in GUI with some data. I wanted to copy selected data but Ctrl+C keys don't work here. Does there is anyoption to copy data from the table.

Answer 1

[Ronit]

Hello Masood,

To copy data from a MATLAB GUI table, use the clipboard function in MATLAB. Using this function, you can copy and paste text to and from the system clipboard.

Create a “Copy” button in the GUI and write a callback function for it. This function should use clipboard function to transfer the table data to the system clipboard, allowing easy pasting elsewhere.

This is how you can create a “Copy” button and name the callback function:

uicontrol('Style', 'pushbutton', 'String', 'Copy to Clipboard', ...
              'Position', [150, 10, 100, 30], ...    % Adjust the position
              'Callback', @(src, event)copyTableDataToClipboard(hTable));

Now define clipboard function using the callback function defined earlier:

data = hTable.Data;
% Convert the cell array to a string with tab-separated values
% Customize the data to retrieve that if required
clipboardStr = '';
for i = 1:size(data, 1)
    rowStr = strjoin(cellfun(@num2str, data(i, :), 'UniformOutput', false), '\t');
    clipboardStr = [clipboardStr, rowStr, '\n'];
end

% Copy the string to the clipboard
clipboard('copy', clipboardStr);
% Display a message to the user
msgbox('Table data copied to clipboard!');

Please refer to the following documentations for better understanding:

1. clipboard: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/clipboard.html
2. Creating Callbacks for Apps Created Programmatically: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_guis/write-callbacks-for-apps-created-programmatically.html