Data Acquisition Toolbox

Getting Command Line Function Help

To get command line function help, you should use the daqhelp function. For example, to get help for the addchannel function, type

• daqhelp addchannel
  

Alternatively, you can use the help command.

• help addchannel
  

However, the Data Acquisition Toolbox provides "overloaded" versions of several MATLAB functions. That is, it provides toolbox-specific implementations of these functions using the same function name.

To get command line help for an overloaded toolbox function using the help command, you must supply one of two possible class directories to help.

• help daqdevice/function_name
  help daqchild/function_name
  

Note that the same help information is returned regardless of the class directory specified.

For example, the Data Acquisition Toolbox provides an overloaded version of the delete function. To obtain help for the MATLAB version of this function, type

• help delete
  

You can determine if a function is overloaded by examining the last section of the help. For delete, the help contains the following overloaded versions (not all are shown).

• Overloaded methods
  help char/delete.m
  help scribehandle/delete.m
  help scribehgobj/delete.m
  .
  .
  .
  help daqdevice/delete.m
  help daqchild/delete.m
  

So, to obtain help on the toolbox version of this function, type

• help daqdevice/delete
  

For more information on overloaded functions and class directories, refer to MATLAB Classes and Objects in the Help browser.

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