On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:33 PM, john_perry_usm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Admittedly my memory for those things is not good, but I think I >> remember that Sage had that feature before Mathematica. In that case, >> let us hope that Sage does not end like the inventors of the >> telephone, Philipp Reis (first public demonstration of a phone link in >> 1861) and Antonio Meucci (first presentation of a device in 1860 >> [without a phone link] and first patent application in 1871 [but >> running out of money, so, his caveat expired])... > > IIRC Maple was showing off Maplets long before Sage existed. Maplets > date from Maple 7, which was released in 2001. I planned to use them > as part of my standard talk when looking for work in 2005, but I think > I always forgot to use them (or ran out of time).
I have the impression that Maplets are somewhat different than Mathematica's Manipulate and Sage's @interact. I'm not so familiar with them -- I read about them online just now, and it seems like they are basically a Maple interface to a subset of the Java Swing GUI API. I *just* tried to use one from the official Maple website, and it promptly completely crashed Firefox (latest version, on OS X). Luckily gmail saved my message so I didn't loose this email! Anyway, John, I assume you've used Maplets a lot. Are they to you very similar to @interact and Manipulate? The idea of having a graphical user interface on a math software system is old. I worked for a year writing MATLAB gui code back in 1997. William -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
