MATLAB: How to get a handle to a public method inside a class in MATLAB 7.8 (R2009a)

Question

I have a class definition file that conatins methods of the class. I want to get the handle to a method inside this class.

Answer 1

Suppose you have class called 'class_a' defined as follows:

classdef class_a
      methods
          function display_message(obj)    % public method
              disp('Hello, there!')
          end
          function h = get_handle(obj)    % return handle to method 'display_message'
              h = @display_message;
          end
      end
end

To get a handle to the method 'display_message', execute the following code:

obj_a = class_a;
h = obj_a.get_handle;
h(obj_a);