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MichaelH1-Visitor
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January 29, 2011
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Insert > Control in MC15 Not Working

  • January 29, 2011
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When I try to insert a control (such as a text box or list box) in Mathcad 15.0 nothing happens.

I was able to do this in MC14, and worksheets created in MC14 or saved in MC 15 with these items work correctly. MC15 just can't create them.

Is this a known bug in MC15?

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ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
24-Ruby IV
January 29, 2011

I have no thid Bug in my Mathcads 15 on my PC and NB!

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AlanStevens19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
January 29, 2011

I can insert text boxes etc ok in MC15 as well.

Alan

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
January 29, 2011

I also don't have this problem (OS is XP). Try repairing the installation.

Which OS do you have?

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MichaelH1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 29, 2011

I'm using XP. I tried re-installing MC15, but no luck.

Since controls are scriptable objects, I'm thinking it may be somehow related to that, but my security for scriptable objects is set to "low".

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
January 29, 2011

Three new questions:

Can you insert a 3D graph OK? What about web controls?

Which version of 14 did you have installed when you upgraded to 15?

Which versions of dotnet do you have installed?

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MichaelH1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 17, 2011

I stumbled across the solution to this while looking form something else in the Help files.

For some unknown reason, the components (.mcm files for text box, list box, and so on) were not "registered" in MC15 when it installed, although they were in the Mathcad folder.

The problem is solved by finding "mcmreg.exe" and opening it. A dialog box appears showing various folders. You then navigate to the folder where the .mcm files are located (typically C:\Program Files\Mathcad\Mathcad 15\mcm) and select all the .mcm files and click open. Another dialog will appear indicating that all the files were registed.

That's it.

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    manuelbarriento1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    September 6, 2017

    Solved! Thank you very much

    @MichaelH wrote:

    I stumbled across the solution to this while looking form something else in the Help files.

     

    For some unknown reason, the components (.mcm files for text box, list box, and so on) were not "registered" in MC15 when it installed, although they were in the Mathcad folder.

     

    The problem is solved by finding "mcmreg.exe" and opening it. A dialog box appears showing various folders. You then navigate to the folder where the .mcm files are located (typically C:\Program Files\Mathcad\Mathcad 15\mcm) and select all the .mcm files and click open. Another dialog will appear indicating that all the files were registed.

     

    That's it.

     

    JeffH1
    JeffH116-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    September 11, 2017

    Sorry, I was away when this was brought up.  I had this problem some time ago.  It is a known issue and is documented on the PTC support knowledge base (CS32000).  Alternatively to the solution you figured out, you can open the windows command line as administrator (right click on the icon and select run as administrator), and type:

     

             C:\Program Files (x86)\Mathcad\Mathcad 15\mathad.exe /register

     

    You only have to do this once and the components will be registered.  I believe this issued was fixed with Maintenance Release M045.

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    ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
    24-Ruby IV
    September 12, 2017

    I use webcontrols!

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