Find files of specific class

Hi Folks

I am building a user interface and have model objects of a specific class. The model name is defined as a property in the file. How can i find all the class files on the path and then populate a dropdown menu with the available model names in a popupmenu.

Thanks

Etienne

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

I don't think you can. You might be able to recursively check all the files and @ directories on the path for files with the first code line being something like:

classdef XXX < otherSuperClass & mySuperClass & anotherSuperClass

You also would then need to check for

classdef YYY < XXX

This of course does not mean that XXX or YYY is actually a valid class. There also could be files that look like:

str = 'classdef XXX < otherSuperClass & mySuperClass & anotherSuperClass'

In fact a function that searches for theses classes well likely have such a line. This will make it hard to do the parsing.

There may also be dynamic ways of defining the classes which will be even harder to catch.

A better way may be for the user to have to register the class so the GUI knows about it ...