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It doesn't look very nice but you could use a scripted list box with your data vector as its input.
Prime 10 file attached
It doesn't look very nice but you could use a scripted list box with your data vector as its input.
Prime 10 file attached
Nice 'misuse' of the input placeholder.
Wasn't aware that it would accept a full program.
Noticeable is the different height of the ":=" with respect to the displayed options when we compare choose3 and choose4.
The displacement in choose4 can be avoided by adding a dummy line (Prime would even accept an empty placeholder)
I was playing around to see if I could use an advanced control on the right-hand side of a function definition. I failed miserably in that quest see image below.
However, while emulating one of Shakespeare's infinite monkeys (do Goethe or Schiller have their own monkeys?), I did note that a control Input seemed to accept programs. Indeed, it is possible to define and use local functions within an Input's program.
I could have deleted the assignment to data and just squared fib(5) directly, but I wanted to show that local assignments worked with local functions (I would make a minor joke, here, about local functions for local programs, but I doubt whether many forum users have heard of or seen the British comedy TV show The League of Gentlemen).
I'm sure there are several other undiscovered ways to abuse controls.
I also noted some strange behaviour when editing a program in situ. A control would fail with strange error messages, sometimes referring to non-existent script line numbers, such as -299, or suddenly not recognising a standard function name that it was perfectly happy with until the edit. Copying and pasting the whole region usually cured these ghastly manifestations.
Stuart
I, too, tried to turn a control into a function, but to no avail.
Found a strange effect (nested return matrix) when using a dummy function argument, but can't see any use. The result is independent from the chosen element.
Interesting. I'd only tried it before with a text box and that returned the value of the text box (IIRC).
However, it looks as though using a dummy argument returns the whole of the Input to the control ...
Stuart
Interesting, so a row vector with all inputs seems to be the 'evaluation' of a component (works even with symbolic eval).
My attempt to evaluate a component directly failed, While it is possible to delete the assignment operator := at the front (makes sense for buttons), it not possible to add an evaluation = at the end.
the eval value of a components are its inputs at least if the are any inputs. If you hoped to get the long asked for empty array when evaluating a component without any input you will be disappointed as the the output value is also the evaluation value in such case.
