Formatting Numbers in App Designer's UITable

Is there a way to format numbers in a UITable in App Designer? For example, can I have the second row's format be '%.1f' and cell (4,2)'s format be '%.4e'? I don't want to use strings because I need to keep the table's numerical data.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You have two possibilities here:

1. format as strings
2. independently round() each column to the appropriate number of digits

The problem with strings is that a) the table no longer contains full-precision data; and b) you lose the ability to force edits to be strictly numeric format (though with CellEditCallback you can post-process and remove the unacceptable portions of the entry.)

The problem with round() is that a) the table no longer contains full-precision data; and b) trailing zero decimal places will not be displayed, so you cannot force the equivalent of %.4f

There is no mechanism that preserves the full-precision values inside the uitable but displays the data with custom format. You can set 'ColumnFormat' for individual entries to be 'short' but that is not so satisfactory.

[Felipe Dicker]

Unfortunate. Thank you anyway.