Patch request - Patch work on bugs for Maple ceases when a new version of Maple nears release, possibly months before the actual release.  I think it's safe to say no work will ever be done to patch up older versions.  But how can we, the user, introduce our own fix code into maple?  Because we can't fix the built in code how can we temporarily or permanantly make our own patches?

For example prior to Maple 14 a bug exists in a ' for - in ' loop. ...

Why is it when I read an image a:=ImageTools:-ToGrayscale(ImageTools:-Read("f:/example.bmp")) saved as a bmp saved from the internet and try b:=Threshold(a,0.5,method=above) gives me this error.

Error, (in ImageTools:-Threshold) unable to store 0.107651138030195570e-293+0.522826466871872160e-288*I in a datatype=float[8] rtable

However when I open the bmp in paint and resave the image in either 24 bit 256 color, doesn't really matter, but a format of bmp...

Not sure how to do this.  What I want to do is use maple to grab an RSS feed from the internet and use maple to put it into a readable format

In particular from this website http://tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com/city/Hamilton/ and getting the rss feed xml style webpage from here http://tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com/rssfeed.php?city=16

I used to be able to view mapleprimes saved webpages (saved as type archive) offline.

Now I cannot.  All the data is in the file it just won't load the answers and comments part of the page offline?  Does mapleprimes have some script that doesn't run now for offline use?  That's terrible.  This means every page I have saved over the last 4 years is useless unless it loads the answers and comments.  Now they are saved in the file but...

I want to wrap a 3d matrixplot histogram around the surface of a cylinder.  How can I do that?

If my matrix is a random 12x12 matrix and I use heights=histogram to plot it

restart;gc();
a:=Matrix(12,12,rand(1..20))

with(plots):
b:=matrixplot(a,heights=histogram,shading=zhue)

and map it onto a surface...