function isImplanted = IsPsychStartupImplantedInStartup % isImplanted = IsPsychStartupImplantedInStartup % % Return TRUE if both the startup.m file is on the MATLAB path and if it % includes a call to PsychStartup. % % If you have your own startup.m file which you want to use, then place it % ahead of the Psychtoolbox startup.m file on MATLAB's search path and add % to your file the line: % PsychStartup; % Setup Psychtoolbox. % _________________________________________________________________________ commandString='PsychStartup'; commentChar='%'; if IsOctave pth = [get_home_directory filesep '.octaverc']; if exist(pth, 'file') == 0 pth = ''; end else pth=which('startup.m'); end if isempty(pth) isImplanted=0; else %check that the startup file contains the PsychStartup call and don't be %fooled by commented-out linese. we implement these as a series of filters. %read the file contents and breack into lines f=fopen(pth); cDoubles=fread(f); fclose(f); cChars=char(cDoubles'); cLines=BreakLines(cChars); %find the indices of those lines which contain the the string %"PsychStartup". These are all candidates but some % might just be comments. occuranceIndices=[]; for i =1:length(cLines) if ~isempty(strfind(cLines{i}, commandString)) occuranceIndices=[occuranceIndices i]; %#ok<*AGROW> end end %build a cell array of the line fragments before the comment character. nonCommentFragments={}; if length(occuranceIndices) < 1 isImplanted = 0; return; end for i=length(occuranceIndices) commentCharIndices=find(cLines{occuranceIndices(i)}==commentChar); if isempty(commentCharIndices); %add the line to the list of candidate fragments if there is no %comment character nonCommentFragments{i}=cLines{occuranceIndices(i)}; else %add to the list of candidate fragments the portion of the line %ahead of the comment character if there is one. temp=cLines{occuranceIndices(i)}; nonCommentFragments{i}=temp(1:commentCharIndices(1)); end end %search the list of candidate fragments for the command string. This %is imperfect because it can be fooled if the command is a substring of %a longer command. But its probably good enough. numFoundCalls=0; foundCallsLineIndices=[]; for i=length(occuranceIndices) foundIndices=strfind(nonCommentFragments{i},commandString ); if ~isempty(foundIndices) numFoundCalls = numFoundCalls+1; foundCallsLineIndices = [foundCallsLineIndices i]; end end if numFoundCalls > 1 % we can't print multiline warnings using warning so just print the % the word "warning" fprintf('Warning: The startup script:\n'); fprintf(['\t' pth '\n']); fprintf(['seems to call "' commandString '" ' int2str(numFoundCalls) ' times. Only one call is necessary\n']); end isImplanted = numFoundCalls; end