User Guide

9 Maplets
A Maplet is a graphical user interface that provides interactive access to the
Maple engine through buttons, text regions, slider bars, and other visual in-
terfaces. You can design custom Maplet applications to use and share with
colleagues or students, or you can take advantage of the built-in Maplets that
cover numerous academic and specialized topics. For information on some
of the built-in Maplets, see Assistants and Tutors (page 26), Teaching and
Learning with Maple (page 180), or Ordinary Differential Equations
(ODEs) (page 89). Other methods of interaction with Maple are described
in the Maple Getting Started Guide and throughout this book.
9.1 In This Chapter
TopicsSection
• Define and Run a Simple MapletSimple Maplet - Illustrating a simple Maplet
• Maplet File
• Maple Document
Using Maplets - Methods for launching a Maplet
• Maplet Builder
• Maplets Package
• Saving
Authoring Maplets - Methods for authoring and
saving a Maplet
9.2 Simple Maplet
A Maplet application can be defined using the commands in the
Maplets[Elements] package and then launched using the Maplets[Display]
command. The following commands define and run a very simple Maplet
application that contains the text string "Hello World".
with(Maplets[Elements]):>
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