Re: Pointers data type in Octave to handle data structures

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,
I think you should have asked at address@hidden, but if I understand 
you correctly you should have a look at

http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CodaTypes

for a tutorial on how to create a new type in Octave.

/Søren

Guillaume Schatz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to implement a set of functions to perform data acquisitions 
> using my own hardware. I want to use handle to have a reference to my 
> hardware like the following instructions in Matlab
>
> handle = analogInput('nidaq','1');
> ...
> data = getData(handle);
>
> Do you know how to use pointers in octave C++ files such as
>
> DEFUN_DLD(getData,args, ,"...")
> {
>    handleType *myHandle;
>    myHandle = args(0).???
>    ...
>    ...
>    ...
>    pthread_mutex_lock(&(myHandle->myMutex));
>    ...
> }
>
> I really need a pointer to this structure to manage my different threads.
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Guillaume