Volkmar Glauche

I decided not to have this compact mode because lines may get really long. But I will think about it again.

This is the code I used for copyobj:
        function new = copyobj(obj)
            % This method acts as a copy constructor for all derived
            % classes.
            new = feval(class(obj)); % create new object of correct subclass.
            mobj = metaclass(obj);
            % Only copy properties which are
            % * not dependent or dependent and have a SetMethod
            % * not constant
            % * not abstract
            % * defined in this class or have public SetAccess - not
            % sure whether this restriction is necessary
            sel = find(cellfun(@(cProp)(~cProp.Constant && ...
                ~cProp.Abstract && ...
                (~cProp.Dependent || ...
                (cProp.Dependent && ...
                ~isempty(cProp.SetMethod))),mobj.Properties));
            for k = sel(:)'
                new.(mobj.Properties{k}.Name) = obj.(mobj.Properties{k}.Name);
            end
end

thanks for the reply. unfortunately i havent managed to get this to work on xgrid. it would've been superb for processing simulations.

This should actually work in older releases, too. My focus was on the eval() solution because the idea came from http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24447, where I generate code for arbitrary variables. This code of course needs to be evaluated.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much.

One suggestion remains though:
1: A 'compact' mode without unnecessary spaces to conserve space