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During file generation, Class Wizard writes the same function prototype intothe private function and follows the prototype with header comments.. During file generation, Class Wizard wri

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Comment: holds a text description of the function The text description will be added tothe header comments when the function is generated.

Clicking the Save Change button commits the changes and displays the function prototype inWYSIWYG format During file generation, Class Wizard writes the same function prototype intothe private function and follows the prototype with header comments Of course, Class Wizarddoesn’t know how to write the real function body, but it can write a body that runs without error.The body of the private function must be manually modified to include the desired class-specificfunctionality

The three buttons, Save Change, Delete, and Done, are the same three buttons used inthe parent-class dialog Refer to §17.2.1.2 for a description of their behavior When you finishmodifying the object’s private-function data, click the Done button This will save your changesand return you to the more dialog Private-function names are shown in the list box adjacent to the

Private Functions … button The names provide a quick summary, and in the more dialogview they are not active You have to open the private-function dialog to make changes or see moredetail

FIGURE 17.12 Class Wizard, Private Function … dialog.

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17.2.1.10 Public Functions … Dialog

Clicking the Public Functions … button brings up the dialog shown in Figure 17.13 Thedialog shown in the figure contains an entry for one function Like most of the tool’s dialogs, thepublic-function dialog is organized into three sections: input fields, action buttons, and a display

In Figure 17.13, the input fields contain values because a function name in the display is selected.Selecting a blank line will empty all values in the input fields Even the name field will be emptybecause there is no suggested naming convention Any legal function name can be entered in thename field

In reality, standard group-of-eight functions are public functions; however, group-of-eightfunctions are managed separately from class-specific public functions Only class-specific publicfunctions show up in this list

Public functions, like most functions, can be described by a function name, a list of inputarguments, a list of output arguments, and a comment The data-entry fields for these four functionelements are described by the following:

Function Name: holds the desired name for the function Any valid function name can

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list By convention, when it exists, this should usually be the first argument in the list

In addition, notice there is no way to enter comments for individual arguments Instead,variable names are added to the data dictionary using the Data menu on the main screen

Output Argument List: holds a comma-separated list of output arguments for thefunction If a copy of the object is passed, this must be included in the argument list

By convention, when it exists, this should usually be the first argument in the argumentlist As with variables in the input argument list, output variable names are added to thedata dictionary

Comment: holds a text description of the function The text description will be added tothe header comments when the function is generated

Clicking the Save Change button commits the changes and displays the function prototype inWYSIWYG format During file generation, Class Wizard writes the same function prototype intothe private function and follows the prototype with header comments Of course, Class Wizarddoesn’t know how to write the real function body, but it can write a body that runs without error.The body of the private function must be manually modified to include the desired class-specificfunctionality

The three buttons, Save Change, Delete, and Done, are the same three buttons used inthe parent-class dialog Refer to §17.2.1.2 for a description of their behavior When you finishmodifying the object’s public-function data, click the Done button This will save your changesand return you to the more dialog Public-function names are shown in the list box adjacent to the

Public Functions … button The names provide a quick summary, and in the more dialogview they are not active You have to open the public-function dialog to make changes or see moredetail

17.2.1.11 File Menu

The main Class Wizard dialog has two menu items: File and Data The File menu allows you

to create a New class definition, Open … an existing definition, Save the current definition, or

Save as … to save the current definition using a different file name These menu items behavethe same as any application that opens and saves files Their behaviors are described as follows:

File::New: Select this item to begin a new class definition The hot-key sequence is

ctrl-N All fields are reset to default initial values, usually empty Currently, using

File::New does not check for changes to the currently loaded values before loading anew file You will not be warned to save your changes

File::Open : Selecting this item allows you to open an existing file using thestandard file-open dialog box The hot-key combination is ctrl-O This familiar dialog

is shown in Figure 17.14 The file format for definition files is .mat This format isconvenient because it allows you to load the definition file directly in MATLAB and tweakthe data in ways not available through Class Wizard

File::Save: Selecting this item saves the current class definition file to the current filename The hot-key sequence is ctrl-S If there is no current filename, you will beprompted to enter one

File::Save As : Selecting this item opens a standard dialog box for specifyingthe file name during a save The hot-key sequence is ctrl-A The familiar dialog is shown

in Figure 17.15 The definition file can be stored anywhere; however, the best location is

in the class directory When class functions are generated, the definition file is automaticallysaved in the same directory as the functions

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17.2.1.12 Data Menu

In most class definitions, the same variable names are used in several functions Rather than commentingthese variables in several places, a data dictionary approach collects the variables into a central location.That way, comments only need to be entered once; and from there, Class Wizard can perform thetedious task of repeating the comments into each header The Data menu is used to enter type andcomment information for the function arguments defined for constructor helper functions, publicfunctions, and private functions The information entered through Data::Dictionary arewritten into header comments when the file is generated The Data::Dictionary dialog isshown in Figure 17.16

Like most of the tool’s dialogs, the data dictionary dialog is organized into three sections: inputfields, action buttons, and a display In Figure 17.16, the input fields contain values because avariable name in the display is selected The Variable Name field is grayed out because thename of the variable cannot be changed This also means that new names can’t be added to thedefinition via the dictionary Names can only be added by defining a new name in a function call.Data in the other fields can be modified to reflect the appropriate descriptions The three data fields

in the data dictionary variable dialog are described by the following:

FIGURE 17.14 Class Wizard, standard File::Open … dialog.

FIGURE 17.15 Class Wizard, standard File::Save As … dialog.

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Variable Name: displays the name of the variable This name can’t be changed because

it is linked to the definition of one or more member functions

Variable Type(s): holds a comma-separated list of types expected Any descriptivetext can be entered in this field The text is not used to generate code, but rather it is used

to comment on the variable in the header of every function where it is used The field isintended to be a description of the allowed types

Comment: holds a string description pertaining to the variable This comment is copiedinto the header comments for each function that uses the variable in its input argument list.The three buttons, Save Change, Delete, and Done, are the same three buttons used inthe parent-class dialog Refer to §17.2.1.2 for a description of their behavior When you finishmodifying the object’s parent data, click the Done button This will save your changes and returnyou to the main dialog

17.2.1.13 Build Class Files Button

After entering class data, class files are generated by clicking the Build Class Files button.This button first displays the standard dialog that allows you to select the directory where the filesshould be written The dialog includes a button that allows you to create a new class directory.Don’t forget to include @ in the directory name An example view of the dialog is shown in Figure17.17

Selecting a directory and clicking OK allows Class Wizard to generate the collection ofclass files In addition to generating class functions, the class definition file is also saved in theselected directory in mat-file format The group-of-eight files are completely functional, and

FIGURE 17.16 Class Wizard, Data File::Dictionary … dialog.

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class-specific member functions exist as simple function stubs If new public or private membervariables need to be added, it is a simple process to reload the definition file, add the new variables,and rebuild the files The class organization and default wizard settings make this possible

17.3 SUMMARY

For building a robust MATLAB class, Class Wizard has no equal The various dialog screens areorganized along the same divisions used to describe an object-oriented design This makes dataentry much less of a chore Once the design data are entered, Class Wizard builds a full imple-mentation of the group of eight and takes care of some of the more mundane details In short, ClassWizard allows you to focus on the design and on the application-specific aspects of the class.There are several ways that Class Wizard can be used in a development environment The leasteffective way is to use Class Wizard to generate an initial set of class functions and then never use

it again I don’t recommend this approach because it is very difficult to keep all of the various files

in synch The file dependency graph in Figure 17.2 is too complicated Some changes seem easy,but eventually, something will be omitted or updated incorrectly It is easy and much safer to letClass Wizard manage changes to the group of eight

One viable approach is to enter only parent, constructor, and variable information into ClassWizard This allows Class Wizard to manage changes to group-of-eight functions while you manageprivate and public member functions outside of the group of eight You lose the advantage ofuniform headers and variable descriptions, but that might be an acceptable trade-off in somedevelopment environments For a well-documented class, these data will still need to be entered;however, they do not have to be entered through Class Wizard fields Keeping default check boxand radio button selections and never entering data for private and public member variables enablethis approach

The third approach extends definition data to include names and arguments for public andprivate functions Comments associated with arguments should also be documented in the datadictionary The first time a class-specific function is generated, the header will include a completeset of comments After that, selecting new will prevent the file from being overwritten It would

be nice to be able to regenerate header comments yet leave the files code intact That way thedefinition would always be consistent with the Class Wizard–generated section of each file That

FIGURE 17.17 Class Wizard, Build Class Files dialog.

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3 Navigate into the Header Info dialog box and enter your pertinent information Use the

Default Header Info menu to save the data for future reference

4 After entering some data, select Build Class Files and follow the process Afterbuilding the files, inspect a few of them and note their close similarity to the standardidioms

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Shape Hierarchy

In Chapter 17, we covered Class Wizard’s various input dialogs along with their general operation

In this chapter, we demonstrate the complete Class Wizard process of developing a collection ofclasses To do this, we will recreate our now familiar collection of classes that includes cLine- Style, cShape, cStar, and cDiamond Creating a collection of familiar classes is importantbecause it allows us to spot logical errors It also allows us to compare automatically generatedfiles with the handcrafted versions The collection also includes a rich hierarchy with both par-ent–child inheritance and composition This is important because the hierarchy exercises most ofthe available options

The primary activity in this chapter involves entering data into the various Class Wizard dialogscreens As data are entered, the lower-list box in each dialog shows a line-by-line summary of thedata To assist you in data entry, a screen shot of each completed dialog is included That way, allvariables and functions are provided as you will see them displayed on your screen The syntax ofeach line in the lower-list box is easy, and converting from the display to individual fields quicklybecomes obvious If the translation isn’t clear, you can always refer back to Chapter 17 In addition,

a shorthand table description of the data in each field is provided

The first step is of course entering data The second step allows Class Wizard to generate classfiles At this point, group-of-eight functions are fully functional Objects can be created anddisplayed, and direct-link public variables can be accessed and mutated Even so, this is not thefinal step Some files will require postgeneration tailoring The list of files includes most of thepublic and private functions that give each class their unique behavior Enter the names andarguments for these functions, and Class Wizard will give you a head start by generating the initialversion The initial version contains full header comments but not much more For example, adescription for draw can be included in the Public Functions dialog, but until it is tailored,calling draw will not do anything The implementation isn’t complete until code for the application-specific member functions has been added The example code for this chapter includes a copy ofthe as-generated files in a directory separate from the full solution

18.1 CLINESTYLE CLASS WIZARD DEFINITION DATA

Begin by running the graphical interface for Class Wizard To do this, the directory

/utils/wizard_gui must be on or added to the MATLAB path You can add the path in one

of three ways: cd into the directory, use an addpath command, or use MATLAB’s File::Set Path menu item After adding the directory, the command to run Class Wizard is simply

>> class_wizard

The current version accepts no input arguments The class_wizard command opens the mainClass Wizard dialog with empty fields and default options You must now fill in fields that describeyour particular class definition After doing this for cLineStyle, the main dialog will look likeFigure 18.1 The full definition file can be found in chapter_17/@cLineStyle/cLine- Style.mat You can follow along and enter data, but if data entry becomes too tedious, you canload the full .mat file at any time Similarly, the definition files for the other classes are located

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are fully functional Since these directories become fully functional only after tailoring, a copy of

t h e fi l e s p r i o r t o t a i l o r i n g c a n b e f o u n d i n t h e c l a s s d i r e c t o r i e s u n d e r

Open a new session of Class Wizard and type in cLineStyle as the class name Leave theother fields on the main dialog blank or filled with their default values This gives Class Wizardcontrol over the group of eight (Overwrite) and allows Class Wizard to generate other files onlywhen the definition data are new (New) The remaining definition data are entered into eachcorresponding dialog Dialog order doesn’t matter, and each dialog can be opened and changedany number of times In the text that follows, a separate subsection is devoted to each dialog

18.1.1 C L INE S TYLE H EADER I NFO

A good place to begin is the header info dialog Click the Header Info … button and enterthe data shown in the various fields of Figure 18.2 Of course, you can replace the example textwith your own name, company information, and so on After entering all header information, savethe fields for future use Before clicking Okay, select the menu item Default Header Info::Save.There are no prompts; however, the fields contained in the dialog are now stored in the file

default_header.mat located in the same directory as class_wizard.m For a new class,you can recall the fields by opening the header info dialog and selecting Default Header

Dialog names associated with each field are merely a suggestion because Class Wizard doesn’tinspect the values All fields use a free format, and you can commandeer any field to write other

FIGURE 18.1 Class Wizard, main dialog for cLineStyle.

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information into the files In the header, each string gets a comment delimiter and the order of appearance

is fixed Once you figure out where each string is written, you will be able to bend the header information

to your specific needs A little later when we look at specific code examples, we can observe the headeroutput For now, simply click Okay to commit the data and return to the main dialog If you click

Cancel, you will return to the main dialog but changes will not be committed

18.1.2 C L INE S TYLE P RIVATE V ARIABLES

The next dialog we will visit defines the private variables Click the Private Variables … buttonand enter the data shown in Figure 18.3 Initially, the lower display will be empty If the first blankline in the lower display block is not highlighted, select the first empty line by clicking on it The datafields are active, and you can start entering private variable data After entering mColorHsv data,click the Save Change button to commit the changes The data are displayed in WYSIWYG format

in the display box, and the selection moves to an empty line Follow the same procedure to enter datafor the other private variables The field data are summarized in Table 18.1

As you enter data, the contents of the lower display are almost identical to the code included

in ctor_ini.m Even the default-value assignment is correctly formatted The Initial Value

string is copied verbatim into the display and into ctor_ini.m Virtually any value that can bewritten on the right-hand side of an assignment can be used as an initial value For example, afunction call generates the initial value for mColorHsv Click Done to commit the changes andreturn to the main dialog

When Class Wizard generates /@cLineStyle/private/ctor_ini, the private variablenames and their default values are included in the code The names and comments are included inthe header If you return to the main screen and click Build Class Files, Class Wizard willgenerate the file @cLineStyle/private/ctor_ini.m shown in Code Listing 105 Otherfiles will also be generated, but ctor_ini is the current focus

FIGURE 18.2 Class Wizard, cLineStyle header information dialog.

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FIGURE 18.3 Class Wizard, cLineStyle private variable dialog.

TABLE 18.1

cLineStyle Private Variable Dialog Fields

([0 0 1])’

[H; S; V] color of border; default

is blue

Code Listing 105, Constructor Helper from Class Wizard, @cLineStyle/private/ctor_ini.m

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Line 1 contains the function definition and lines 2–24 contain the header comments Line 2

identifies the class and function along with a truncated one-line description For this line to be

meaningful, the header-info defined H1 Line field needs to be short and the first few words of

the function comment should be concise Line 3 and line 32 contain the classification string

Line 5 repeats the function definition because help does not automatically display it Lines 7–8

contain the contents of the Common Header Comments field from header info Lines 10–13

list the private variables and their comments The remaining header comments are generated from

various fields in header info Lines 26–38 are code; here the private structure is created and private

variables are added and initialized Notice the private variable mDisplayFunc in line 31 This

variable was not in the private variable list, but it shows up in the default constructor because

cLineStyle has no parents If you compare Code Listing 105 with ctor_ini from Chapter

16, the code lines are identical

18.1.3 C L INE S TYLE P UBLIC V ARIABLES

Moving down the collection of dialog buttons brings us to the public variables Click the

Public Variables … button and enter the data shown in Figure 18.4 Fresh from the previous

appear just after

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exercise of entering private variables in §18.1.2, the fields Name and Comment are familiar The

type, accessor, and mutator fields are new

The type field serves two purposes First, with the exception of display, the public nameand its type string are copied into all group-of-eight headers Second, the type string is displayed

as a hint when set is called with one argument That also means the type string is copied into the

–possible case inside fieldnames

Accessor Expression and Mutator Expression fields guide the generation of publiccases inside get.m and set.m If the Expression field contains the name of a private variable,direct-access code syntax will be inserted into get or set If the Expression field containsthe string %helper, helper-function syntax will be inserted into get or set, and a stub for thehelper will be generated Finally, if the Expression field is empty, a public case for the variable

is not included The Accessor Expression value and Mutator Expression value areindependent Accessor Expression influences the code in get and Mutator Expression

influences the code in set In addition, public variables with an empty Accessor Expression

value are not included in fieldnames or struct

All public variables in cLineStyle have accessors The accessor for Color uses a helper,but accessors for LineWidth and LineHandle are directly linked to mLineWidth and

mLineHandle All public variables also have mutators In this case, the mutator for LineWidth

is not a direct link but rather uses a helper The table of entries for the public variables is given inTable 18.2

The procedure for data entry follows the same procedure used for private variables Select thefirst empty line in the lower display block, and enter data in the fields After all field values havebeen specified, click Save Change to commit the data and move to the next line In this dialog,the lower display can’t be easily formatted using standard MATLAB syntax Instead, the lowerdisplay delimits each field by putting two colons between each value The display order is name,type, accessor, mutator, and comment When you have finished all additions or modifications, click

Done to commit the changes and return to the main dialog

FIGURE 18.4 Class Wizard, cLineStyle public variable dialog.

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If you compare the generated group-of-eight files with files from Chapter 16, the code linesare identical Because of this, you will have no trouble relating the code to discussions in theprevious chapters Ideally, you will never need to hand tailor any function in the group of eight,but if do, you should have no trouble finding your way

Accessor and mutator helper functions are another matter These private functions requiretailoring because the dialog data do not include any information that could be used to generateclass-specific code The functions include header information and they include code stubs that allowthem to work without error This allows group-of-eight mechanics to be tested prior to tailoring,but the class is not fully functional until afterward We revisit the topic of helper file tailoring in

§18.1.7

18.1.4 C L INE S TYLE C ONSTRUCTOR F UNCTIONS

The final data-entry button on the main dialog defines constructors The cLineStyle class uses

a two-argument constructor to assign values for Color and LineWidth Click the tors button to display the dialog shown in Figure 18.5 To define a new constructor, the

Mutator

LineHandle graphics handle mLineHandle mLineHandle Public

graphics handle to the line plot

FIGURE 18.5 Class Wizard, cLineStyle constructor function dialog.

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only data required are a comma-separated list of input variable names The function name is createdbased on the number of variables The comma-separated variable list is entered in the Input Argument List field Any valid variable name except this can be used in the list

For this example, we don’t need a table of dialog values Select the first empty line in the lowerdisplay Then type color, width into the Input Argument List field When you aredone, click Save Change to commit the data Finally, click Done to return to the main dialog.During file generation, Class Wizard will use this data to generate a function stub named

private/ctor_2.m The stub contents are shown in Code Listing 106 The comma-separatedlist from the definition data shows up in the input argument list of the function definition Thesevariable names also show up in the header on lines 12 and 14 The comments list them as having

no type info and no description because data dictionary data for these variables do not yet exist.The generated code is found in lines 27–31 The function will run; however, until it is tailored,line 29 will display a warning The helper can be tailored by copying code from the Chapter 16version

Code Listing 106, Two-Input Class Wizard Constructor, @cLineStyle/private/ctor_2.m function this = ctor_2(this, color, width)

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18.1.5 C L INE S TYLE D ATA D ICTIONARY

At this point in the definition, public and private variables are defined and an additional constructor

is available From the main screen, you could generate all required files for a fully functioning

cLineStyle class But don’t click Build Class Files because there is one more dialogthat needs attention We need to add comments so the header inside ctor_2 will contain mean-ingful comments for its input arguments

On the menu bar of the main dialog, select Data::Dictionary … This selection willdisplay the dialog shown in Figure 18.6 These fields are similar to the same fields in the publicvariable dialog Initially the lower display should include the variable names color and width

but there will be no type or comments The variable names in the lower display were collectedfrom the argument definitions used to define constructors, public functions, and private functions.Since cLineStyle uses the standard set of public and private functions, the list only includesconstructor arguments The data dictionary dialog can’t be used to add variables Variables areadded automatically based on function definitions

The type and comment data you need are provided in Table 18.3 Select each variable bypointing to its line in the lower display and clicking The field values are now active and can bemodified Click Save Change to commit the changes before selecting the next name Afterentering all the data, click Done to return to the main dialog Now if you generate the files, theheader in ctor_2 will contain meaningful comments The affected lines now look like thefollowing:

FIGURE 18.6 Class Wizard, cLineStyle data dictionary dialog.

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18.1.6 C L INE S TYLE B UILD C LASS F ILES

The definition for cLineStyle is now complete Click Build Class Files to begin classfile generation You always need to specify a destination class directory MATLAB’s standarddirectory-selection dialog is used An example of the dialog is shown in Figure 18.7 Simplyhighlight the desired directory and click OK. If a suitable directory does not exist, the Make New Folder button on the lower left will allow you to create one When you click OK, Class Wizard

The initial RGB line color The array is

a 3x1 column vector of values and the values range from zero to one.

greater than 0

FIGURE 18.7 Class Wizard, cLineStyle directory-selection dialog.

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generates class files File generation is very fast Click Okay on the confirmation dialog to return

to the main Class Wizard dialog The newly generated class should work without error; however,

a couple of helper functions need to be tailored before the class will achieve full functionality.These functions are discussed next

18.1.7 C L INE S TYLE A CCESSOR AND M UTATOR H ELPER F UNCTIONS

In cLineStyle three private helper functions need to be tailored The first is ctor_2, a privateconstructor helper The as-generated file was shown in Code Listing 106 Modifying the as-generated file is easy because we can copy the code body from the working version in Chapter 16.Refer to Code Listing 89 to see the complete function body

Code bodies for the other two helpers, Color_helper and LineWidth_helper, canalso be copied from Chapter 16 After copying the code bodies, cLineStyle is complete Thetailored versions of Color_helper and LineWidth_helper are also included in thischapter’s source files Before moving to the other classes, let’s look at the initial helper-file stub.The as-generated version of Color_helper is shown in Code Listing 107 The listing consistsmostly of comments, but there are some important lines of code in each case

Code Listing 107, Public Variable Helper, as Generated by Class Wizard,

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