Delete application on target computer programmatically

Hello, I am trying to delete an application on my target machine (SpeedGoat) programmatically.

I am essentially trying to replicate what the Delete button of the Simulink Real-Time Explorer does.

Which function (or hidden function) does this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Dimitri MANKOV]

Hi Matteo,

The function "removeApplication" was introduced for that purpose in MATLAB R2022a. Furthermore, the function "removeAllApplications" is available since R2022b.

I hope this is helpful!

Dimitri

[Matteo Pellegri]

Hi Dimitri, thanks very much for the answer. It's very helpful.

I know about the new functionalities introduced already from 2021b and they seem to address many of the issues I am having with 2020b. Unfortunately with 2020b I had to use a workaround. It's not the same but it does the job, however old applications are not removed from the machine so I have to go there once in a while to do a clean-up.

Here's my code

tg = slrealtime('yourTarget');

tg.connect;
[file,path] = uigetfile({'*.mldatx'},...
    'File Selector');

if file~=0
    try
        if isRunning(tg)
            stop(tg);
        end
        install(tg,fullfile(path,file),'force')     %<--- does the trick
        load(tg,extractBefore(file,'.'));           %<--- does the trick
        setStartupApp(tg,extractBefore(file,'.'))   %<--- does the trick
        start(tg);                                  %<--- does the trick
        msg = ['Loaded ', file];
        disp(msg);
        
    catch
        msg = ['Could not load ', file];
        disp(msg);
    end
end

Hope this helps as well. We will move to 2022b at some point.

Best,

Matteo