How to make functions outside of Class folder hidden from access

Hi all, I have a class folder, we'll call class1.

class1 contains properties and methods, both hidden and not.

To access these methods or properties, I use the dot notation :

class1.func1
class.Property1

I like using the 'Tab' button to cycle/auto-type through my properties and methods. However, some functions that are inherit / default to matlab are showing up

for reasons I'm not sure why. Example:

class1.AddListener
class1.delete
class1.findobj
class1.isvalid
% etc...

Most of their paths come from: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2018a\toolbox\matlab\lang\

they're a bit distracting, because I want the user to type:

'class1.' , hit tab, and see what they have available to access.

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Your class is a handle class. As stated in the "Handle Class Methods" section of this documentation page that means you inherit a dozen methods.

For all those methods except isvalid you could "extend" it as shown on this documentation page in a methods block with the Hidden attribute and I believe that would allow them to still work while removing them from tab completion. The isvalid method is different, it is Sealed so you can't override it with a Hidden method in your subclass.

Another possibility, if your class doesn't need to be a handle class, would be to remove that superclass from your class's definition.

[Kevin Phung]

Thanks for the response steven, I wasnt too sure how to formulate my search but you definitely lead me in the right direction!