Implementing listener and callback, infinite loop

Hi,

My problem follows the one I described here:

https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/362302-how-to-put-condition-based-on-a-property-in-a-property-accessor?s_tid=prof_contriblnk

So in my example, a class "Car" as properties "Brand" and "Color".

Brand can only be 'Ferrari' or 'Mercedes', and 'Color' can only be Yellow or Red for the Ferrari and Black or Silver for the Mercedes.

I did put Color as Dependent and added a set method with a sort of pair property of color.

When set or get is called for Color, its a "twin" property that holds the value.

I have a list of valid Color input for the Ferrari and the Mercedes, so that when setting the Color of the car it as to be right.

It works fine, but if I change the Brand, then the Color is invalid but there is no check for that.

So I would like the Color Prop to change to the first Valid one (in the list) whenever "Brand" is modified.

For that I tried to implement a property that listen to the Brand property. ==>"BrandChangeListener"

I made the Car class to inherit form handle. Then I was getting a warning with my set methods, so I modified them from: obj = set.propName(obj, value) to set.propName(obj, value), so that it does not return the object anymore. That fixed the warning.

In the constructor I tried to implement a listener:

myCar.BrandChangeListener = event.proplistener(myCar, findprop(myCar, 'brand'),'PostSet', @ResetColor);

On this line I get the error: While adding a PostSet listener, property 'brand' in class 'car' is not defined to be SetObservable.

[Stephen23]

@Laurent Davenne: this is not twitter. I removed the useless # characters from your tags.

Answer 1

[Adam]

Personally I always use addlistener syntax when adding a listener. I am not familiar with your syntax, but it seems it will still work. The 'See Listen for Changes to Property Values.' link takes you to a page where all the examples use addlistener, but since you are getting this error message I assume the two syntaxes are interchangeable.

Basically you need to just follow what the error tells you and add the 'SetObservable' attribute to your 'brand' property

e.g.

properties( SetObservable, Access = public )
   brand
end

[Laurent Davenne]

Thanks Adam!

I get this syntax from the Book you get when you attend the OOP training class.

Your solution works, but my code does not call the callback:

function ResetColor(obj,~)           
            obj.Color = validList{1};   
        end

[Laurent Davenne]

Calling the callback with the instance of the object @myCar.ResetColor

and adding an empty input made it work...

function ResetColor(obj,~,~)           
            obj.Color = validList{1};   
        end

[Laurent Davenne]

Actually I do not even know why I need this 3rd input to make it work? Just saw this in a code example.

The doc says you need at least 2 inputs, and if more their use is explicit.

https://fr.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/callback-definition.html

Why do I need a 3rd "empty" one?

[Adam]

Default inputs for a callback are always the source and the event data. For a regular callback these will be the first two arguments. For a callback that is part of an object 'obj' will always be the first argument and source and event data will be the 2nd and 3rd arguments unless you call your callback as:

@(src,evt) obj.ResetColor( )

Again your syntax is one I am not familiar with though as you do not appear to need to attach obj to your call to ResetColor so I can only assume this is embedded into the event.proplistener creation.