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Creating your own Maple Library in Maple (Windows)
Maple allows the user to create a personal library that you can use to store Maple programs and object using the
savelib() command. If you don't already have a personal library on your machine, you can create one by following the instructions below. Don't do this if you are on a lab machine or other machine that you do not have write-access to. Note: you only need to do this one time!
Installing a personal library
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Create an empty directory on your hard drive where you want the library to be installed. For the sake of these instructions, we will call it
c:\files\mylib , but you can call it whatever you like as long as you make the appropriate changes
below.
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Run
Maple and execute the following commands to create the library files. Note that you have to double the \ character when you use it in a maple string. Be sure to change the value of
LibDir to the name of the directory you created in Step #1.
LibDir:="C:\\files\\mylib":
march('create',LibDir,10000):
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In order to enable the personal library you must place the following commands at the end of your
maple.ini
file in the maple startup directory. To determine your
Maple startup directory, close all running copies of Maple, run a new
version of Maple and execute "currentdir();" as the first command
in the worksheet -- it will return the startup directory. If you don't already have a
maple.ini
file, you should create one with Notepad or any other text editor. Be sure to replace
"C:\\files\\mylib"
with whatever directory you specified in LibDir above.
libname:="C:\\files\\mylib",libname:
savelibname:="C:\\files\\mylib":
[Notes: if you
have shortcuts to start Maple in a different directories, you should put a
copy of maple.ini in each startup directory. You can also use the command line argument -i
to specify the location of the .ini file. Also, if you want to be able to
load packages from your personal library when loading Maple worksheets by
double clicking on existing .mws files you should go to Folder Options in
the Windows Control Panel. Under the File Types Tab, scroll down to the .mws
extension and click the Advanced button and edit the Open command. Under
'Application used to perform action' add the command line switch -i
"c:\[path to your maple.ini file]" where [path to your maple.ini
file] is the complete path and filename for your maple.ini file. For
example, the entry under 'Application used to perform action' you would have
something like:
"C:\Program
Files\Maple 9.5\bin.win\cwmaple9.5.exe" -i "c:\Program Files\Maple
9.5\maple.ini" "%1"
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After you make these modifications to the
maple.ini
file, shut down maple and reload the program for the changes to take effect.
Installing a personal help database
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After installing your personal library, you may want to
initialize a personal help database. Open a worksheet that you want to save
as a help file.
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Choose Help/Save to Database from the Maple menu.
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Type a name for this help file in the Topic input box
(this is the name that will retrieve the help file when you type ?yourtopicname
at a maple prompt).
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If your personal database doesn't appear listed in the list
of writeable databases, type the name of your personal library directory
followed by maple.hdb
in the Database input box. For example, if your personal library is
in c:\files\mylib,
then you would type c:\files\mylib\maple.hdb
in the Database input box.
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Click Save Current.
This will
create your help database. In the future, if you want to save other help files,
your database should appear automatically in the Database input box.
Further information
For further information see the Maple program help for the
savelib
command.
You can also read the
instructions for making your own packages at Maple's web site.
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