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  • Subject: [mg89633] Re: [mg89620] a mathlink question
  • From: "J. McKenzie Alexander" <jalex at lse.ac.uk>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:37:28 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <200806151013.GAA12268@smc.vnet.net>

Does it have to be a C-program?  If not, you can do this via J/Link in  
the following way. First, compile the following class:

public class MemorySum {
	double total;
	
	public MemorySum() {
		total=0.0;
	}

	public double AddToPreviousSum(double x) {
		total += x;
		return total;
	}
}
	
Once you've compiled that and saved the class inside a jar file,  
create an instance of the class in Mathematica as follows:

	Needs["JLink`"];
	InstallJava[];
	AddToClassPath["Path/To/JarFile/filename.jar"];
	object=JavaNew["MemorySum"]

You then call the function as follows:

In[29]:= object@AddToPreviousSum[10]
object@AddToPreviousSum[10]
object@AddToPreviousSum[10]
object@AddToPreviousSum[10]
object@AddToPreviousSum[10]

Out[29]= 10.
Out[30]= 20.
Out[31]= 30.
Out[32]= 40.
Out[33]= 50.

The J/Link documentation has more details regarding persistence of  
Java objects.

Jason

--
Dr J. McKenzie Alexander
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

On 15 Jun 2008, at 11:13, GS wrote:

> I would like to call a C-program from Mathematica. All the examples in
> the MathLink tutorials (like AddTwo[i,j]) work like this: they are
> called from Mathematica, are executed, send the result to Mathematica
> and exit.
>
> I would like a C-program to not exit after the execution, and keep the
> memory of the previous inputs. Say, I want an external C-program, to
> be called as AddToPreviousSum[x]. When it is first called, it returns
> x. When it is called the second time AddToPreviousSum[y], it returns x
> +y. When it is called the third time AddToPreviousSum[z], it returns x
> +y+z, and so on.
>
> How do I implement this in C using MathLink?
>
> Thanks.
> GS.
>






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