Format currency in a uitable in app designer

I have a table with a column that has dollar amounts with $ sign and commas. I have created the values as strings:

"$ 1,111,111"; "$ 2,222" so that the commas will line up. When I send this to a table in app designer it strips out the leading spaces between the dollar sign and the number:

$ 1,111,111

$ 2,222

What I want is

$ 1,111,111

$ 2,222

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You need to specify the uitable FontName property, supplying a fixed-width font.

Your current problem is that spaces in proportion-width fonts are very thin compared to other characters.

Note: there is no way to specify a font name on a per-column basis, only the entire uitable at a time

[Rodney Smith]

Thanks for the suggestion. However, it does not seem to have solved the problem. I set FontName to Courier, and still have the same problem:

I even set the Amount as an editable field and type in $ 2,222 and it still takes out the leading spaces between the $ and the number.

[Walter Roberson]

This is a problem in R2024b.

This problem is solved in R2025a Pre-release.

[Rodney Smith]

Thanks!