proper namespace organisation with classes and enums

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Hi Folks,
I'm curious of how to proper organise a folder structure for xx
Setting
Consider I'm developing a driver class for some DeviceA made by Manufacturer.
I assume, that I will use this DeviceA in several more Projects and I probably will get another one DeviceB, which use the same manufacturer-specific enumerated definitions of something - let`s say the volume levels will be defined as:
classdef enumVolumeLevels < uint8
enumeration
volLow (0)
volMid (50)
volHigh (100)
end
end
So I will write some kine of driver class including everything manufacturer-specific either as constants or as enumerations.
Folder Structure
So my Folderstructure will look like:
%rootfolder:
.\+Manufacturer\@DeviceA\DeviceA.m % class definition including constructor and destructor methods and some property 'Volume'
.\+Manufacturer\@DeviceA\SomeMethod.m % Methods will be stored separately in class folder
.\+Manufacturer\enumVolumeLevels.m % enumeration class containing manufacturer-specific definitions of volume levels
Now if I'm going to write a setter and getter method, which both checks If the provided Value fits to the manufacturer-defined levels
classdef DeviceA
% [...]
methods
%getter
function value = get.Volume(obj)
value = Manufacturer.enumVolumeLevels(50); %some dummy getter method
end
%setter
function set.Volume(obj,level)
arguments
obj
mode Manufacturer.enumVolumeLevels
end
% some dummy setter method
end
end
%[...]
end
Standalone usage
Now I'm goind to test my class from the root folder of this project.
... and works fine if I define an object of this class and assign or read the property Volume
test = Manufacturer.DeviceA(); %call constructor
test.Volume = 50; %set property to something
disp(test.Volume); % display this property
Code Refactoring
Following the initial Idea of writing this driver class to use it in several Application specific projects I will include it into root folder of ProjectA, which looks like:
%rootfolder of ProjectA:
.\+Drivers\+Manufacturer\@DeviceA\DeviceA.m % class definition including constructor and destructor methods and some property 'Volume'
.\+Drivers\+Manufacturer\@DeviceA\SomeMethod.m % Methods will be stored separately in class folder
.\+Drivers\+Manufacturer\enumVolumeLevels.m % enumeration class containing manufacturer-specific definitions of volume levels
.\MyFunc.m %some script containing instancesof the DeviceA-class
But if I write MyFunc.m as follows:
function MyFunc
test = Drivers.Manufacturer.DeviceA(); % call constructor
test.Volume = 50; % set property to something
disp(test.Volume); % display this property
end
... it will fail after the 2nd line because from the setter point of view the enumeration class Manufacturer.enumVolumeLevels is not defined.
So my question is:
--> Is there a solution for organizing my namespace folders to avoid such visibility Problem?
Perhaps I'll need to chanhe the folder structure of my Manufacturer-package or the way I use the enumeration class in my class DeviceA, but I'm completely stuck right now and have no Idea, what should be the best practice in this case,

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