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Re: Cause of $ErrorLink message in EXCEL/Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg26684] Re: Cause of $ErrorLink message in EXCEL/Mathematica
• From: Ulrich Hofstoetter <ulrich.hofstoetter at visualanalysis.com>
• Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:47:33 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Visual Analysis
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Todd in Oslo wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am testing my first model of an EXCEL spreadsheet linked to a
> Mathematica kernel using MathLink for EXCEL. The model works fine for a
> limited number of calculations, say about 4000 cells. But now I am
> experiencing the following problem:
> 
> The calculations of 6000 cells never gets more than 65% finished
> because the link between EXCEL and the Mathematica kernel seems to be
> broken, resulting in an error message for the rest of the 35% of the
> cells. The message in these cells is $LinkError.
> 
> What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to fix this?
> 

Do you use VBA?

Does an array exceed the array size limit set in the link options? This
should give an $ArrrayTooLarge, but who knows?

Do you try to get a list element by element in a loop of some kind? I
had this once and my problems went away by fetching the complete list.



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