Go to the guy's site where Tomasz download his source code from, download his source code, and stare at that one instead, I think its a lot closer to what you want. http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/user/niko/cmaes_c.tar.gz
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Brown Sent: Monday, 7 July 2008 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [amibroker] Code help please... Optimize with CMAE Hello, I have been staring at the CMAE DLL stuff for days and I really need some help to figure out how to use it in a particular way. I would like to use the optimizer in a generic sense to do the following from AFL without using the internal backtester, meaning only AFL in indicator mode: Initialize 2 items: item 1 is X and has a default,min,max,step,current,best values 1,1,1000,1,1,1 item 2 is Y and has a default,min,max,step,current,best values 1,1,1000,1,1,1 The objective is to optimize X and Y so that X*Y==100 objective function in AFL: function Objective() { return 100 - X*Y; } The steps I would need to take as I understand them are: 1. Initialize the X and Y OptimizeItems by calling OptimizerInit( with bunch of arguments) --most arguments are irrelevant to this test. 2. Start the optimizer engine by calling pfEvaluateFunc( pContext ) -- there really is no context that I understand for this test. 3. The DLL calls back for the objective AFL function 4. It runs step 3 a number of times to find the solution of X=Y=10 5. OptimizerFinalize(same bunch of arguments as step 1) Of course I would prefer that step 3 is AFL calling the optimizer DLL instead (simple mode), but I did not think that is how the CMAE works. Anyway, if I could get this simple case to work, I am sure I could figure out how do do much more complicated cases after that on my own. Of course if there is no way to use the existing DLL without changing it, I would like to know that also. I should be able to make modest changes to the DLL myself. Please any hints or AFL code is appreciated. Best regards, Dennis
