MATLAB Object-Oriented Programming

Built-In Data Value Methods........................ 12-55

Built-In Data Organization Methods .................. 12-56

Built-In Indexing Methods......................... 12-57

Built-In Concatenation Methods..................... 12-57

Subclasses of Built-In Types Without Properties ......... 12-60

Specialized Numeric Types ......................... 12-60

A Class to Manage uint8 Data ....................... 12-60

Using the DocUint8 Class.......................... 12-61

Subclasses of Built-In Types with Properties ............ 12-68

Specialized Numeric Types with Additional Data Storage.. 12-68

Subclasses with Properties ......................... 12-68

Property Added................................. 12-69

Methods Implemented............................ 12-69

Class Definition Code ............................. 12-69

Using ExtendDouble.............................. 12-72

Concatenation of ExtendDouble Objects............... 12-75

Use of size and numel with Classes .................... 12-77

size and numel.................................. 12-77

Built-In Class Behavior............................ 12-77

Subclasses Inherit Behavior........................ 12-78

Classes Not Derived from Built-In Classes ............. 12-79

Change the Behavior of size or numel................. 12-81

Overload numArgumentsFromSubscript Instead of numel.. 12-82

Representing Hardware with Classes.................. 12-83

Objective ...................................... 12-83

Why Derive from int32............................ 12-83

Implementation ................................. 12-83

Construct MuxCard Object......................... 12-84

Call Methods of int32............................. 12-85

Determine Array Class.............................. 12-87

Query the Class Name............................ 12-87

Test for Array Class .............................. 12-87

Test for Specific Types............................ 12-88

Test for Most Derived Class ........................ 12-89

Abstract Classes ................................... 12-91

Abstract Classes................................. 12-91

Declare Classes as Abstract........................ 12-92

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