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Re: Can IDL and MATLAB run together?? [message #32130 is a reply to message #32094]

Wed, 18 September 2002 12:25

mule_rocks
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2002

Junior Member

Both IDL and MATLAB have a "callable" API that in theory you could use
to call one from the other, and vice-versa, but both are designed to
allow you to call the internals as a subroutine (at a very low-level)
from C, so you'd probably have to write some sort of C wrapper to
go-between in both instances.

If you're running on Windows you could use ActiveX technology to get
the two programs to communicate, but then again you have to ask
yourself would it be easier to just transfer data back and forth via
files on disk? Here's an example of pushing data from an IDL session
into MATLAB6's ActiveX Automation Server and making a plot in the
MATLAB workspace:

IDL> oMatlab6=OBJ_NEW('IDLcomIDispatch$PROGID$Matlab_Application_ 6')
IDL> data=DINDGEN(100)
IDL> PLOT, data
IDL> oMatlab6->PutFullMatrix,'fromidl','base',data,data
IDL> oMatlab6->Execute,'plot(fromidl);'

Note that this is IDL 5.5 or newer and MATLAB6(R12) has to be
installed on the computer for this to work.

- AEB

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		Re: Can IDL and MATLAB run together?? By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 11 September 2002 07:55
		Re: Can IDL and MATLAB run together?? By: btupper on Wed, 11 September 2002 07:34
		Re: Can IDL and MATLAB run together?? By: mule_rocks on Wed, 18 September 2002 12:25

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