is It possible to overload dot notation operator?

Hi all, I would like to overload the dot notation of my object. for example if I have am object 'obj", I would like that obj.fun1 will do something else than from call the "fun1" method. Is it possible? Thansks, ior

[Lior]

Thanks,

This helped me a lot.

Answer 1

[Friedrich]

Hi,

I think you have to overload the subsasgn function

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2011b/techdoc/ref/subsasgn.html

There you see the following example:

See how MATLAB calls subsasgn for the expression:
A.field = B;

The syntax A.field = B calls A = subsasgn(A,S,B) where S.type = '.' and S.subs = 'field'.

So it can be tricky to overload it probably.

See also here:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/matlab_oop/br09eqz.html#br09ho8

[Walter Roberson]

Right, subsasgn() if the object appears on the left side of an assignment, subsref() otherwise.