Dear all,

Is there the possibility of controlling Smath Studio with Visual Basic?

I mean, could I create an application with WB with a new VB form and the VB tools as I wish, then would Smath Studio read the values of the variables, calculate and show the results in the new VB form?

So could I introduce the values of the variables in my new wonderful window, secondly Smath Studio takes them and calculates and third the results would be showed in a window designed exactly as I'd like.

I find the plug-in for standalone exe files quite good, but I'm looking for more flexibility in the design of the windows.

Thanks

There is no simple way to do what you want. Is not entirely clear what version of VB you mean: VB6 or VB.Net. In any case embedding into other applications currently not supported. Now you can't do this.

Thanks uni for your answer.

The point is we are improving the efficiency of our FEA-calculation program using Visual Studio Express 2013 in order to reduce repetitive tasks and to get specific results more directly.

Then I wondered if that could be possible with Smath Studio too. With Visual Studio Express is very easy to create customized windows and Smath Studio is a powerful tool for engineering. The link between both programs seems to me to provide interesting results.

Bye

On my last post I mentioned Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol to share data between applications.
This article mentions a dll called DDEML which might be used to have SMath communicate with other programs :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms648774.aspx

OK, I'll have a look at it.

Wrote

OK, I'll have a look at it.

well it was rather addressed to some developer, anyway here you have a visual basic sample :
http://www.thescarms.com/VBasic/ddeml.aspx

some years ago I made some ugly trickery using win32 apis (fuctions contained in windows' .dlls) to embed programs inside my application as well as listening for keyboard and mouse, you may try that sort of experiment, for example embed a few smath viewers into your app, register their pids, handles, use hooks to listen the user entry, or copy the input controls content, etc
some win32 appi for you to investigate :
user32( "CallNextHookEx", "SetWindowsHookEx", "UnhookWindowsHookEx" )
kernel32( "GetModuleHandle" )
user32( "GetWindow","GetWindowThreadProcessId", "FindWindow" )
the program WinSpy++ at catch22.net may come in handy

isn't smath viewer beautiful enough ?

Lots of thanks.

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isn't smath viewer beautiful enough ?

Yes, I love Smath and find the viewer a big thing. The point is I’d like its design could be more flexible. For instance, when I do any calculation according to some code introducing charts and tables the window is sometimes too long or too width. I’d like to put the charts wherever in the window, or the input and output labels and boxes not necessary one below the other.

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Yes, I love Smath and find the viewer a big thing. The point is I’d like its design could be more flexible. For instance, when I do any calculation according to some code introducing charts and tables the window is sometimes too long or too width. I’d like to put the charts wherever in the window, or the input and output labels and boxes not necessary one below the other.

If you want to use only SMath Studio engine to calculate sm-file in a hidden mode (w/o visualisation), I think it is possible.

EDIT: It will look like this, but we need to initialize the engine. I don't know how to do it correctly.

[MATH]a:1[/MATH]
[MATH]b:1[/MATH]
[MATH]c:a+b[/MATH]

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VBNet. Example01.pdf (14 KiB) downloaded 80 time(s).

OK, with your help I can start doing something.

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OK, with your help I can start doing something.

But you must keep in mind one thing (in the example above I used assemblies separately from the program)

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