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IDL DDE and ZEMAX [message #53518]

Tue, 17 April 2007 05:38

lbusoni
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Registered: January 2007

Junior Member

Hi all,
I need to send commands to the ZEMAX raytracer from IDL.
ZEMAX accepts DDE commands, and IDL has a kind of discontinued support
of DDE.

In fact, Get* commands to retrieve data from the ZEMAX session work
fine, but when I use the Set* commands to modify a value in the ZEMAX
datasheet nothing happens even if the return value says 'ok'.
I don't think the problem is on the ZEMAX side because everything
works fine using MATLAB or C examples available on the Zemax web site;
it seems to be a problem with DDE client in IDL.

Any idea on how to convince IDL and ZEMAX to communicate?
Did anybody have this kind of problem before?

thanks

Lorenzo
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Lorenzo Busoni - LBT AdOpt Group
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
L.go E. Fermi 5 50125 Firenze (Italy)

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