These functions are part of the OpenMaple interface to Microsoft Visual Basic.

The RTableCreate function creates a new rtable with the settings specified in rts.

When using RTableCreateDefault the pdata must be set to 0.  In this case a data block is allocated and initialized to rts.fill. When using the other RTableCreate functions, you must specify a previously created block of data. It is important that rts.foreign is set to TRUE. Size, storage, data_type, order, and indexing functions must all be considered when managing your data block.

The array, bounds is a list of the lower and upper bounds for each dimension of the rtable.  For example, a MxN Matrix has bounds[0] = 1; bounds[1] = M; bounds[2] = 1; bounds[3] = N.

The 2-D format of VB Arrays do not match the Maple rtable data-block memory layout, so pdata must be a pointer to a 1-D Array. 2-D can be achieved using a 1-D Array by simple arithmetic on the index.

Note: Matrix and Vector lower bounds must start at 1, not 0.