hasActiveValue

Determine whether setting has active value set

Since R2024a

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Syntax

hasActiveValue(s)

Description

hasActiveValue(s) returns 1 if the setting has an active value set. Otherwise, hasActiveValue returns 0.

example

Examples

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Add custom settings group with one setting. Confirm that it has no active value by default.

s = settings;
g = addGroup(s,"mysettingsgroup");
addSetting(g,"OfficeNumber");
hasActiveValue(g.OfficeNumber)
ans =

  logical

   0

Set the personal value for the OfficeNumber setting, which updates the active value.

g.OfficeNumber.PersonalValue = "East205";

Use a conditional statement to confirm that OfficeNumber now has an active value and, if so, return that value.

if ~isempty("g.OfficeNumber") && hasActiveValue(g.OfficeNumber)
  value = g.OfficeNumber.ActiveValue
else
  disp("OfficeNumber has no active value.")
end
value = 

    "East205"

Input Arguments

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Setting, specified as a SettingsGroup object. Use the settings function to access the root settings group object and all the available settings in the tree.

Version History

Introduced in R2024a

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