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RedCrab includes an integrated application interface (API).
The API can send data to external programs for calculation
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The RedCrabAPI.dll file must be included in the external programs to communicate with RedCrab.
Find the file in RedCrabs subdirectory tools/bin
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The external programs can be written in any programming language.
Important is that a development system is used which allows the API file to mount
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Microsoft Visual Studio is probably the most common.
The Visual Studio Express can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft server.
It supports C++, c#, Visual Basic and other programming languages. Instructions to inserting the RedCrabAPI.dll
in a Visual Studio project you can find here
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The externally programmed functions are called by the function Xcon() from the RedCrab worksheet.
You will find more information here