Subject: Writing Igor experiment from Python?
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Am 03.09.2018 um 18:34 schrieb Scott Hannahs:
> The other method that I haven?t coded up, but keep thinking about is to use the TCP/IP xop to run in a background task. It listens for command strings and executes them. To transfer data, that special command would open an additional TCP channel and just dump data of a given type and length into a wave.
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> This then means that the Igor plot/analysis server can exist on any machine and not just the local system.


I don't want to take away the fun of doing some C++ coding and having
fun with the OS TCP/IP stack, but I might have something usable already.

We are using an Igor Pro application and a python application together.
And the python application can execute Igor Pro user functions via [1]
and return their results. It uses ZeroMQ as messaging layer and can be
used either locally or over the network.

The following parameter/return types for Igor Pro functions are
currently supported:

###
Supported parameter types:

string (including pass-by-reference)
variable (including pass-by-reference)
datafolder reference

Supported return types:

string
variable
wave (without wave reference waves or datafolder reference waves)
datafolder reference
###

This is used like everyday and a lot and works pretty well.

Thomas

[1]: https://github.com/AllenInstitute/ZeroMQ-XOP/