MATLAB Object-Oriented Programming

Create an instance of the class:

obj = MyDataClass(d,'Test001')

obj =

MyDataClass with properties:

Data: [3x4 double]

Description: 'Test001'

Date: [2012 1 7 9 32 34.5190]

The constructor arguments pass the values for the Data and Description properties.

The clock function assigns the value to the Date property from within the constructor.

This approach captures the time and date information when each instance is created.

Here is the preliminary code listing without the subsref, subsasgn double, and plus

methods.

classdef MyDataClass

properties

Data

Description

end

properties (SetAccess = private)

Date

end

methods

function obj = MyDataClass(data,desc)

if nargin > 0

obj.Data = data;

end

if nargin > 1

obj.Description = desc;

end

obj.Date = clock;

end

end

end

Specialize Subscripted Reference — subsref

Implement a subsref method to support both the default and a specialized type of

indexing.

17 Specialize Object Behavior