Q:Can I turn on a Notebook from the kernel?
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- Subject: [mg17305] Q:Can I turn on a Notebook from the kernel?
- From: xingjing at calvin.math.vt.edu (Xing Jing Li)
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:22:31 -0400
- Organization: The Math Forum
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, all; I apologize my awkward questions since I am just starting work on the Mathematica and MathLink a couple of weeks. I hope the experts in this group will help me clear my view on the subject so I can save some time searching fruitlessly on my own. I am working on a project that using Mathematica to do some symbolic computation. My goal is to put the symbolic expressions in the notebook to ".gif " or ".pdf" files from a Mathematica which is running from a remote server. I can let math kernel to evaluate the expression I feed in from a C program and what I get back is a LONG expression with all the headers and brackets. (I sort of changed the "factor.c " in the <mathlink Examples> to start with.) What I want are the expressions as in the notebook. Is there any way I can turn on a notebook from the kernel so that I can feed in the stuff I need to evaluate from a C program them save the output in ".gif" files or do I have to write some front end to do the work. I have tried the examples come with the DeveloersKits and all the examples in the Mathlink Tutorial by Todd Gayley. I also searched The Mathematica Book for an answer. So far I had no idea how do you do it if you can do it or can it be done at all. I tried to use Notebook commands in the Kernel mode and it tells me these are frontend objects and they are not available. Does it mean I can not access the notebook from the kernel? Thanks in advance, Xing Jing