Stateflow

Objects and Properties in the Contents Pane

The possible parents for the objects displayed in the Contents pane are shown in the following table.

Object	Can be parented by...
	Machine?	Chart?	State?	Box?	Graphic Function?
Event	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Target	Yes

For convenience, a hypertext link to the parent of the currently selected object in the Object Hierarchy is included following the Contents of label at the top of the Contents pane. Click this link to display that object in the Stateflow diagram editor.

Properties for each of the objects in the Contents pane are displayed in column entries as follows.

Property	Description	Object
Name	Name of object	Data, Event, Target
Scope	Scope of object	Data, Event
Trigger	Trigger of event	Event
Type	Data type	Data
Size	Size of data array	Data
Min	Minimum value of data limit range	Data
Max	Maximum value of data limit range	Data
InitVal	Initial value of data when initialized from data dictionary	Data
FrWS	Initialize data from MATLAB Workspace	Data
ToWS	Save data to MATLAB workspace	Data
Watch	Watch in debugger	Data

The preceding properties are described in the following sections:

• Setting Data Properties
• Setting Event Properties
• Accessing the Target Builder Dialog for a Target

You can access the Properties dialog of each of the preceding objects to change or add properties. You can also change these properties directly from the Explorer window. See Setting Properties for Data, Events, and Targets.

Objects in the Explorer

Targets in the Explorer