Name of deployed app

Hello everyone,

Some months ago I deployed a number of apps using the matlab compiler. I used to add a folder "images" within the "files required to the application to run" and successfully access it by doing:

fullfile(cftroot,'images')

After updating to 2019a, it seems that the folder hierarchy of the app is changed, and the images folder is located in a subfolder

fileName = 'fileName'; % first 12 characters of the name given in the matlab compiler
fullfile(cftroot, fileName, 'images')

My question is simple (I hope):

is there a function that allows me to automatically retrieve "fileName"?

(So that if I change the name of the deployed file, I don't need to change the code)

Thank you very much,

Rob

Answer 1

[Subhadeep Koley]

MATLAB provides fileparts and mfilename function to get parts of file name and to get file name of currently running code.

Therefore, using the following code in the startupFcn callback of your code might help.

[filepath,name,ext] = fileparts(mfilename('fullpath'));

Here the variable "name" contains the name of the current running file.

[Roberto Gentile]

Thank you!

very much appreciated!

[Jiri Hajek]

I'm looking for an answer to the same question, but this one is not really correct. An app name (exe file) may be different from the m-file before compilation. The mfilename function return the name of the original m-file, not of the exe-file.

Any help would be much appreciated...

[Anna Weeks]

filepath = fileparts(mfilename('fullpath'));

Appname = strtok(filepath(numel(ctfroot)+1:end),'\');