What are all good GUI & plotting package options forMaxima?

Hi - You may want to (for Windows Maxima) check out the following clone of
Grace/XMGR, known as PrestoPlot:
http://lancelot.bio.cornell.edu/jason/presto.html#features
This is apparently freeware (at least I cannot see anything further that is
license-related on the site), and retains many of the features of Grace et
al.  There is also something on an API that allows communication between
PrestoPlot and other programs.

 Dave Holmgren


>
> --- seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> > What are all the good GUI and plotting options
> > that try to support Maxima??
> >
> > Gnuplot is not GPL compatible.  This limits our freedom
> > with this one. I'd like to hear what are other quality GPL
> > compatible plotting packages out there.
>
> GPL compatible wise, probably the best I am aware of for 3D currently
> are Scigraphica and Kmatplot, neither cross platform.  I have not
> extensively used either though.  3D plotting is a relatively rare
> ability in a program.
>
> I agree that Grace is currently our best 2D gpl package, and in some
> ways I like it better than gnuplot for 2D output.  Unfortunately it is
> not cross platform.
>
> Eventually we will probably take the best code and/or ideas and work
> them into a Maxima oriented plotting solution, but that is a long ways
> down the road - post 6.0.  Look in the archives for some of the
> potential tools for this task.
>
> > I know of xmaxima and Symaxx interfaces.  Are these
> > the best??? The only ones? What are they lacking
> > that makes people often mention the need for a better
> > interface for Maxima?
>
> This is not a simple subject, but I'll try to give a reasonable
> outline.  Remember this is just one opinion.
>
> The biggest limitations of Symaxx are 1) it is no longer actively
> maintained as far as I know 2) it is written in a rather odd Perl-Tk
> language binding and 3) it doesn't do true 2D input.  It also uses a
> flowchart model of interaction, which is useful for some things but not
> very handy if you want a notebook style interface.  That said, it is
> probably the most capable interface we've got.  It has some features,
> like the flowchart mode, I would like to preserve as options in a new
> interface.
>
> Xmaxima is essentially a very fancy Tcl/Tk wrapper around the command
> line interface.  It does match parenthesis, provides menus and embeds
> plots but as a notebook style interface it is rather lacking.  It also
> is rather kludgy about how it handles embedding the plots.  It has been
> very much improved of late and will still be the standard interface for
> 6.0, but beyond that there is much much more that can be done.  If you
> have ever used Mathematica you have some idea of what a properly
> implimented 2D input style is like.
>
> As for what could be done in a new interface, there are probably a
> thousand good ideas that can and should be used.  The default interface
> design will no doubt be a topic of intense debate :-).  But again, this
> is all post 6.0.  There is also some discussion of this subject in the
> archives.
>
> CY
>
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