How to select a table row rather than cell?

I have a list of objects with multiple identifying parameters to present to the user for selection (one or more).

My 2 choices seem to be:

• Present as a list which means format the parameters into a line, then parse the selection
• Present as a table, where alignment and separation of parameters is easy but I can't figure out how to select a whole row (signifying the object) rather than a cell (signifying a parameter).

This comes up several times in this project so I prefer the Table method but can live with the List method.

I found a news group article that uses findjobj to get the underlying JTable but that function doesn't seem to be in R2011b.

I can't seem to find a way to do any of the following:

1. Use GUIDE to say I only want to select rows
2. On the select call back, select all the columns in that row
3. Get a handle to the underlying JTable to call setColumnSelectionAllowed(false) and setRowSelectionAllowed(true)
4. Think of another mystic incantation to do this.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Joe

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

findjobj() is a MATLAB File Exchange contribution; see http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/14317

[Joseph Areeda]

Thank you Walter.

I just wanted to update the status.

For a while the download link on that page was broken. A broken link report got it fixed but not in time to meet my needs so I ended up changing my widget to a list box.

I did google and find an old version of findjobj which did not work with R2011b.

When I get this thing released I will test the latest version.