How to run and control a software within MATLAB?

Hi

I searched a lot about this question, but it didn't work out. I was wondering if opening a program (rather than MS office family) in MATLAB is possible. Seemingly, with actxserver, only MS office family can be controlled via MATLAB (?). If there exists such a way, I appreciate sharing your experience on this.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

On MS Windows, ActiveX / DCOM can control anything that is ActiveX / DCOM enabled. For example, Adobe has information available on using ActiveX to interface with its Authorware programs. Or people have used ActiveX to talk to frame grabbers that decode H.264 broadcast streams.

[Ive J]

Dear Walter, Thanks for your response.

Do you think is it possible to use ActiveX for a software like Telegram? I was trying to check the above with actxcontrollist, but it seems there is no such possibility for Telegram (desktop).

[Walter Roberson]

If that is Telegram Messenger, then the API is described at https://core.telegram.org/api#telegram-api