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SteveKeen1-Visitor
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May 1, 2010
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Programming

  • May 1, 2010
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I press control-K and nothing happens.

I'm no fan of the Ribbon bar (one of Microsoft's worst ideas, and that's saying something), but why is there no "Programming" button on the Ribbon bar? At least that might work.

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SteveKeen1-VisitorAuthor
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May 1, 2010
Fortunately the old shortcut of the ] bar does work! Nice to see that there is finally an else... if construct in programming.

The presence of programming makes this alpha much more usable than the preceding beta ... But as noted above the absence of components for handling external data is a real limitation at present.
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SteveKeen1-VisitorAuthor
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May 3, 2010
Just copying some correspondence with Mona here for the sake of completeness:

From Mona:
Steve,

The Help was not updated. To insert a program or a new program line, use ] as in Mathcad 14.
Go to Math tab > Operators and you�ll see the programming operators listed.

My reply:
Thanks Mona,

But this is still a step backwards from M14. With M14, I can have the Programming Toolbox right next to whatever program I'm working on, and it's a one-click operation to insert a new operator. Now I have to go to the Ribbon and it's a two-click operation.

Couldn't there at least be a simile to the old Toolbox that appears when I work in a program? Ironically, because Prime is less "mouse friendly" on this front than M14, I've started to learn the keyboard shortcuts for programming (which I didn't need in M14). Yet another instance of the Ribbon being a step backwards in usability.
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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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May 3, 2010
On 5/3/2010 7:01:36 PM, SteveKeen wrote:
>Ironically, because
>Prime is less "mouse friendly"
>on this front than M14, I've
>started to learn the keyboard
>shortcuts for programming
>(which I didn't need in M14).

It's just like being back in the good old days of DOS!

Richard
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