Raise warning from simulink block mask initialization?

Hi,

From the mask initialization tab I am trying to check the value of a variable. If var == 999 I want to raise a warning. i.e. I want a warning to be shown in the Matlab command line. But using warning('message') or error('message') does nothing. Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

[Sreeram Mohan]

Hi Carlos,

Can you try using evalin('base', 'warning(''message'')') to see if that helps ?

--sreeram mohan

[Carlos]

Thanks for the suggestion Sreeram, but that did not work. For sending error messages this works:

try

    if var == 999
        error('error message')
    end

catch exception

    throwAsCaller(exception)

end

but I still don't ave a solution for warnings.

[Carlos]

Actually that works Sreeram, but not as well as I would like. If I write the evalin('base','warning(''meassage'')') command in the mask initialization it works perfectly.

But to keep the question simple I had omitted some details. I need to call the same error checking from 11 different blocks in my library. So ideally I'd like this little piece of code to be a function (class method actually). If I put the evalin(...) in a class method and then call that method from the block initialization then it does not work.

I'd prefer it to be a class method so that I do not have to change it in 11 different places when I want to make a change.

Any idea on how to do this?

Thanks for the help!

- Carlos

[Sreeram Mohan]

Can you try an feval combination with evalin ?

For example evalin('base', 'feval(''warning_function_class'', ''parameters'')')

Just a thought !

Sreeram Mohan