Re: Re: simplified C API call in MathLink
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- Subject: [mg55938] Re: [mg55918] Re: simplified C API call in MathLink
- From: Edward Peschko <esp5 at pge.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:07:17 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 06:54:49AM -0400, ragfield wrote:
> > I was wondering if Wolfram Research had plans for a simpler API for
> mathlink.
>
> The functionality of which you speak is very straightforward to
> implement with MathLink by wrapping ToString[ToExpression[...],
> InputForm] around the text you wish to evaluate. In fact, I just did
> it:
Just curious, but does the following have state? Does the MLINK remember
what variables were entered into it, so you could print them out later?
And would you be able to export graphs back to C (using ExportString, per chance)?
Or are there embedded nulls to worry about, and if so, how do you handle them?
If this is really as fairly straightforward to do this in a production ready way
as I think it is - and hence not much of a deal to program - then it really
would be nice to have all of this functionality in a simple function call
or function calls embedded into MathLink itself, and distributed by
Wolfram Research, rather than having to deal with a wrapper or wrappers.
Why? Because if it was officially supported, every single scripting language
that wanted to embed mathematica into it could point to this 'simplified API'
functions and use them, rather than needing to reinvent the wheel every time.
Perhaps three separate functions:
void mathematic_3(MLINK *, char *expr, char *return);
char *mathematic_2(MLINK *, char *expr);
char *mathematic_1(char *expr);
which differ by how much mathlink handles memory management. Then
mathematic_dealloc();
could be used to deallocate whatever memory the mathematic* functions
allocated.
Ed
(ps -
just curious, but when you have a MLINK instance, does it count
as a separate process instance? I noticed that I cannot have more
than two 'math' processes, without mathematica complaining. Is this
true for MLINK instances?
)
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- Re: simplified C API call in MathLink
- From: "ragfield" <ragfield@gmail.com>
- Re: simplified C API call in MathLink