font control in uimenu objects

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Arabarra
Arabarra on 23 Jun 2018
Edited: Walter Roberson on 23 Jun 2018
Hi,
is there some obscure trick to change the fonts in uimenus? I use uimenus to show tabulated data:
name : <foo>
address : <foo>
phone number : <foo>
In two subsequent uimenus I reserve the same amount of spaces before the colon, but as the default font that matlab assigns to uimenu objects does not have a fixed width, my uimenus look horrible, as the colons don't appear aligned... is it possible to find a fix for this?

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Jan
Jan on 23 Jun 2018
Edited: Jan on 23 Jun 2018
Pool = {'name : foo', ...
'address : foo', ...
'phone number : foo'};
figure;
menuH = uimenu(gcf, 'Label', 'Your Menu');
h1 = uimenu(menuH, 'Label', ['<HTML><PRE>', Pool{1}]);
h2 = uimenu(menuH, 'Label', ['<HTML><PRE>', Pool{2}]);
h3 = uimenu(menuH, 'Label', ['<HTML><PRE>', Pool{3}]);
See: https://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/html-support-in-matlab-uicomponents

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 23 Jun 2018
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Arabarra
Arabarra on 23 Jun 2018
Edited: Walter Roberson on 23 Jun 2018
that looks like a good approach. Jan's tip saved my day for today, but for big tables (more that 10 fields), I'll need more flexibility, like in the link you indicated. Thanks!

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