SOME IDEAL IMPROVEMENTS



  1. From a usability point of view, this export should really be a drop down menu item grouped with the current export options of html, laTex and rtf. As was demonstrated, the html export generates gifs of all the maple output and plots and assembles them on the page. Ideally the text should be handled with mathML and the plots with Javaview for a lossless, snapshot free export of an entire Maple worksheet to the web.

  2. Maple 6 does allow user defined context menus to be attached to Maple objects. Unfortunately it appears that Maple does not allow you to add to or modify the context menu for a plot object. Ideally, one could right click a plot and export it to a JavaView embedded html file just as it is possible to export a plot to a .gif, .jpg, or .bmp in this way.

  3. The above two features would make the procedure interface to the JavaViewLib transparent. Unfortunately, this would require a build with the Maple gui libraries as Maple provides no hooks, sdks, or api's to allow for this. However with some thought at least the hotswap could be automated a tad more.

  4. A flag could easily be set to allow jvl exports to append additional geometries to existing files instead of overwriting them. (next release)

  5. Imports should parse .jvx files as well as colour scheme information. (next release)

  6. Launching the javaview executable from unix is not currently automated from within JVL. This requires running the javaview executable through the java interpreter. This should not be too diffucult to implement, but the simplest means has yet to be determined. (next release).