Re: mathematica 4.0 + NET/Link doesn't work?
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- Subject: [mg68420] Re: [mg68407] mathematica 4.0 + NET/Link doesn't work?
- From: Todd Gayley <tgayley at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 03:59:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
At 05:07 AM 8/3/2006, Andreas Baumbach wrote:
>Hello,
>
>actually i have mathematica in version 4.0 installed. Now i want to
>build a UI for a given mathematica program.
>I have downloaded MathLink, J/Link and NET/Link from www.wolfram.com,
>and so they should run in the latest version.
>But when i want to initialize the Link, i got an error:
>Here is the code:
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In[1]:= <<NETLink`
>
> In[2]:= InstallNET[]
>
>LinkOpen::"linke": "MathLink error: \!\(\"the linkname was missing or not in \
>the proper form\"\)"
>
>InstallNET::"fail": "A link to the .NET runtime could not be established.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>i become desperate, i need that program to work.
>In advance: Thank you for your help.
Andreas,
Here's a quick one-line fix to get .NET/Link to work back in Mathematica 4.0:
SetOptions[LinkOpen, LinkMode->Launch]
Now InstallNET[] will succeed. I can't guarantee that everything in
.NET/Link will work in Mathematica 4.0, but then neither can I think of
anything that will fail.
Todd Gayley
Wolfram Research