How to deselect cells in uitable / how to disable cell selection highlighting?

Question

I created the following uitable:

actually every single row is an indpendent uitable, so the figure shown contains 5 uitables besides the header. Why I'm doing that was the issue of my last question, resulting in the shown table. Fully executable code you can find in the answer here (or a minimal example below). Solutions using a general GUI are also there, but it would blow up the code too much, and actually it just seems to be a kind of bug.

It can be seen that everytime I jump to the next row, therefore to another uitable, the last selection remains highlighted, which looks stupid, though it doesn't matter for the functionality.

There is the 'SelectionHighlight' property for uitables, sounds like a solution, but it is not changing anything. I used it as following:

set(src,'SelectionHighlight','off')  %where src is the handle of the current uitable

at various places: at the end of a 'CellSelectionCallback', at the end of a 'CellEditCallback' and as global property. But everytime the last cell remains selected. Actually I don't need selection at all.

How can I disable the whole selection or selection highlighting property for all my uitables?

How do I have to use this property, that it has an effect?

Alternatively: how can I change the "highlighting" color (and therefore text-color) so the highlighting is just not visible anymore?

Apparently this issue appears also in other contexts.

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I created a minimum executable example, where one can select a number between 1 and 3 in every row.

function minimalTable 

%basic properties
line_height = 21.32;
table_height = 3*line_height;
lh = line_height/table_height;

h = figure('Position',[200 100 202 table_height],'numbertitle','off','MenuBar','none');

% addrow(figurehandle,number of row, percentage lineheight)
% every function call creates a new row, later dynamically
addRow(h,1,lh);
addRow(h,2,lh);
addRow(h,3,lh);
end

function modifySelection(src,~)
set(src,'SelectionHighlight','off')
waitfor(src)
end

function [th] = addRow(fh,k,lhp)
selector = { '1'; '2' ; '3' };
defaultData  =  {'select number...'};
columnformat =  {  {selector{:}}   };
columneditable =  true;

th = uitable(fh,'Units','normalized','Position',[0 1-k*lhp 1 lhp],...
              'Data', defaultData,... 
              'ColumnName', [],...
              'ColumnWidth', {200},...
              'ColumnEditable', columneditable,...
              'ColumnFormat', columnformat,...  
              'RowName',[],...
              'SelectionHighlight','off',...
              'CellEditCallback',@modifySelection);
end

results in:

Answer 1

After some deeper research I found out, that the Matlab Support comes out with the following solution:

%overwrite data with a dummy and restore the old data afterwards, to force deselection
function modifySelection(src,~)
 ...
temp = get(src,'Data')
set(src,'Data',{ 'dummy' });
set(src,'Data', temp );

end

Doing this the blue highlighting is gone, BUT the dotted line around the last selected cell remains! But I found a solution resolving this, which also makes the first part dispensable.

function modifySelection(src,evt)
 ...
fh = get(src,'parent');    % get parent figure handle
copyobj(src,fh);           % copy uitable to parent figure
delete(src);               % delete current uitable

end

Which results in the desired behaviour:

Drawback of the second solution: it lags a little (probably just on slow machines), because of the creation of a new object.