@William Simpson The GUI is the interface that should initially start by default when you load Maple.

Typing in libname; and executing will give you the path location to lib on your hard drive.  Then you can place the files required in that location to run direct search optimization application.   Or follow the other instructions Acer gave you. 

@MortenZdk Yes the RandomVariable call has to be made otherwise, as you found out, it doesn't work.

@JonMcLoone I think Maplesim follows that same pricing model you describe.  For MapleSim I was kind of surprised to see second digit releases were not actually partial upgrades but full blown releases. 

For Maple, at least currently, all sub releases first and second digit releases are free updates, while third digit or letter releases seem to be reserved for fixes that require immediate attention. 

It's nice to see new features in a free update - it helps retain users.  IN the past only two categories existed - Major releases and minor updates or patches.  Nowadays it's looking more and more like four - Major releases - Minor releases - Major updates and Minor updates. 

It scares me when companies change their pricing models because it usually means paying a little more.  It's a heavy model to weigh, push and pull, customers and company, higher cost for more features and customer satisfaction or lower cost and less features with similar customer results or no change in cost with added features and very high customer satisfaction. 

Creating such a pricing model could be done quite easily and cheaply in Mathematica or Maple.  I wonder if Mathematica uses Mathematica to discover such things?

Are versions 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 free updates for 10.0?

@DSkoog Didn't you forget something important in the graphic?

@Carl Love Actually 2 applications for FEM applications prior to Maple 10 come up.  Finite element methods for solving PDEs  and  Finite Elements Package.  I'm not sure wether these would be of any use.

It would be nice to see some imrpovement in Maple in the FEM and FEA area, it would hit at some of the strengths that exist in Matlab or Cosmos.  I am sure Samir Khan wouldn't hesitate to agree with that. 

As Carl hinted, there is some great opportunities to extend Maples features here, either by a third party or from Maplesoft itself. 

You could upload your code here and certainly someone could help.

@roman_pearce I'm confused about support. 

As far as I'm concerned Maplesoft supports only the current release.  I don't recall ever seeing the release of a bug fix prior to the current version. 

Now if by support you mean a help line, then ok that makes perfect sense.  I think I just texted myself into the answer.

Do you mean escape characters?  Look in the help under StringTools backslash, that might help.

\n is newline ... it could be \r (carriage return)

Give an example of the string you are reading in. 

@DSkoog update works great.  So far issues reported are gone.

I'm using Windows 7 and I don't see any of those issues and neither has anyone else so it's probably Windows 10 related.  Something to do with your java install maybe.  Try a re-install

In my haste I forgot to incude the variable in the range.  I've deleteted Maple in preparation to format my hard drive since all my restore points dissappeared so in the end I may not have to.  I have to re-intstall and will get back to you shortly.

Ok finally tried this morning.  Started Maple and got some IsWorksheet warning error when I was closing the Start tab.

and I get this

int(x^2, 0 .. 2);
                        /    2            \
                     int\x(x) , x = 0 .. 2/

It has also propagated itself to 2015, trying a restart.

** edit added **  I forgot to include what variable the range was for  ie.  int(x^2,x=0..2)

One thing that might clear this all up, you failed to mention whether you are using the 32 bit or 64 bit version? 

This does not exist in the 64 bit version.  After realizing it just now it came to my thoughts that you may be dealing with an issue in the 32 bit version of Maple 2016.1.

There is no attached worksheet but I believe Kitonum has solved your issue below.