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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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May 12, 2010
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Extra Components and Controls

  • May 12, 2010
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Here's a useful collection of scripted components and controls. They allow you to do things in Mathcad that are otherwise difficult or impossible. These also serve as examples for someone that wants to write their own. I wrote some of these, but not all of them.

See also here for functions for date and time handling that are based on scripted components:

Date Calendar and Time functions.mcd

See also here for how to save the state of controls and scripted components:

Saving the state of controls.zip

Updates:

Versions 2 through 10: Various things I didn't bother to tell anyone about

Version 11, Jan 04 2011: Added a button to execute a series of shell (a.k.a. DOS) commands. There was already a function for this, but not a button.

Version 13, Feb 28 2013. Added scrolbars and sliders that can be either linear or logarithmic.

Version 14, Nov 14 2014. Improved the dynamically filled listboxes to take a scalar input for a single element list.

Richard

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    RichardJ19-TanzaniteAuthor
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    December 19, 2011

    Sorry, lazy of me asking instead of looking.

    If I modify it and upload a new version the modification may not be at the end of the document (for example, I might put a new component next to other similar components) so figuring it out by looking might not be so easy. Maybe in future I'll be less lazy, and write a comment about what the change was

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    MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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    December 19, 2011

    Maybe in future I'll be less lazy, and write a comment about what the change was

    I'll keep being lazy then

    Mike

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    RichardJ19-TanzaniteAuthor
    19-Tanzanite
    December 19, 2011
    I'll keep being lazy then

    I think you just got the better of that deal

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    Anonymous
    June 4, 2013

    the script from Extra Components.mcd.zip has modified my computer. 

    The menu of practically all applications have been masked.

    what is this?

    Is that a virus?

    either it had the virus or caught one, that's terrible, I advise the readers not to download it.

    kar

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    RichardJ19-TanzaniteAuthor
    19-Tanzanite
    June 4, 2013

    That is not possible. I just downloaded the copy that is here, and the size is identical, to the byte, to the one I uploaded. So nothing has been hacked. There is nothing in any of those scripts that can modifiy your computer (beyond writing some text files to your hard drive, anyway). Which script do you believe changed something?

    There are also a great many other people that have downloaded that file since February, and if anything in it could modify computer settings I'm sure they would have posted something about that.

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