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mziegler-41-Visitor
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October 21, 2014
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Drop Down Menus

  • October 21, 2014
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I am trying to update a bunch of Mathcad 14 sheets to Prime 3.0, and I know Prime 3.0 does not have drop down menus like Mathcad 15 does. Is there any other function on Prime 3.0 that can serve the same function? I have attached a Mathcad sheet that I need to update to Prime 3.0 that has drop down menus, any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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October 21, 2014

Matthew Ziegler wrote:

I am trying to update a bunch of Mathcad 14 sheets to Prime 3.0, and I know Prime 3.0 does not have drop down menus like Mathcad 15 does. Is there any other function on Prime 3.0 that can serve the same function? I have attached a Mathcad sheet that I need to update to Prime 3.0 that has drop down menus, any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

You are very brave trying to convert Mathcad 14 sheets to Prime. As you have mentioned, Prime does not support scriptable components, but they will hopefully be included in Prime 4.0.

If you really want to use Prime then maybe you could use embedded Excel component and store the data there. I know they have drop down box options.

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mziegler-41-VisitorAuthor
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October 21, 2014

I will try to use an Excel file. Do you know if there is an anticipated release date for Prime 4.0 or know of anywhere i can find any information about Prime 4.0?

Thanks,

Matt

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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October 21, 2014

You could have a look here.

Fresh news from blog. Post "PTC Mathcad Prime: Past, Present, Future": http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Mathcad/~3/rYfldS_ICoM/

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MJG1-Visitor
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August 29, 2016

To achieve this in Prime, you could create a table of the possible selection options and an ID number.  The user would then enter the ID number for the selection of their choice.

Note that I changed ORIGIN to 1 for this example.

If you want to maintain a look similar to your existing file, you can place this table in the non-printed region.

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MJG1-Visitor
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August 29, 2016

Here's an example where the user input is not the vector index:

Alternatively:

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