topic Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox in Mathcad

Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

Raiko — Wed, 29 May 2024 06:41:12 GMT

Hi folks,

has anybody figured out whether the textbox can change/adjust:

fonts
switch on/off the border (see image)
removing the output variable entirely

It seems to me that Prime 10 is lacking these features in text boxes.

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

LucMeekes — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:44:52 GMT

Hi Raiko,

I suppose you saw this: https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Mathcad-Prime-10-Text-Box-Advanced-Controls/m-p/952250#M212068 ...

Success!
Luc

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

DJNewman — Wed, 29 May 2024 17:14:47 GMT

I"m curious what the use case of removing the output variable is.

I mean, you can make it valueless so if you evaluate what the text box was defined to then it's just "", and you can hide the definition so no one reading your worksheet will know what it is.

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

Werner_E — Wed, 29 May 2024 17:56:57 GMT

Removing the output would make sense if the text box is just used to display a result like the "pass" and "fail" in the thread Luc had linked to.
In this case its useless to have to assign the textbox to a variable which we do not intend to use.
Of course we can assign the box to a dummy variable and then hide and collapse the left hand side of that (unnecessary) assignment.

But I too sure would be interested how to change the font family, font style, alignment, etc from within the script and being able to remove the border or change its look (double lines, shadow, ..) like we could do in Mathcad would be beneficial, too.

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

Raiko — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:32:02 GMT

Hi,

my case is exactly as Werner described it. I only want to display a text, therefore I don't need an out put variable. Having only the text and display it without a frame makes it easier to read in documentation. However, for the life of me I can't figure out how you're hiding the definition.

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

Raiko — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:44:52 GMT

Finally I found out "how to". It was hidden in plain sight on the ribbon.

Thanks for the reply

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

Werner_E — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:48:48 GMT

However, for the life of me I can't figure out how you're hiding the definition.

Check both options to hide the left hand side and also save the space it would take up.

Actually just checking "Collapse" also automatically hides the left hand side.
The two options in combination are not intuitive but they work 😉

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

Werner_E — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:57:44 GMT

Oops, so my answer was 2 minutes too late 🙂

Re: Mathcad Prime 10 TextBox

DJNewman — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:05:20 GMT

Before:

After:

If a user doesn't know the definition variable used, and it's never referenced again, then there is effectively no output.

Edit: My answer was more than 2 minutes late!