From: Prashant Patil on
Hi,
I have a software which can be controlled from an external program.

To control the software from an external program the application can act as a
server according to the COM Automation standard defined by Microsoft. Many
programming environments and software packages are able to access the application as
a client through this interface standard

In the user manual they have mentioned many programing environment for COM automation like visual c++, visual basic , Windows scripting host, Labview etc.

I am more or less a matlab guy and would like to know if this is possible in matlab also and any reference material that can help me getting start

thank you very much
regards,
Prashant Patil
From: Steven_Lord on


"Prashant Patil" <prashant_patil(a)live.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a software which can be controlled from an external program.
> To control the software from an external program the application can act
> as a
> server according to the COM Automation standard defined by Microsoft. Many
> programming environments and software packages are able to access the
> application as
> a client through this interface standard
>
> In the user manual they have mentioned many programing environment for COM
> automation like visual c++, visual basic , Windows scripting host, Labview
> etc.
> I am more or less a matlab guy and would like to know if this is possible
> in matlab also and any reference material that can help me getting start

In the MATLAB documentation, there is a section titled "External
Interfaces". Three of the chapters in that section refer to COM in their
title, so I would start reading them to learn how to interface with other
applications using COM. In the most recent documentation, this is a link to
that section:

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_external/bp_kqh7.html

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