MathCad Drop down menus 1

[StrPE]

Can anyone offer how to advice on creating drop down menus MathCad? I use MathCad versions 6, 13, 14, 15 and 2001i.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[SWmechE]

StrPE,

I think what may work is the list boxes. Go to Insert > Control > List Box and see if that works for you. I acually found your post today while looking for the solution myself so I have not played around with it too much yet.

This doesn't appear to be a true drop down menu but is the closest thing I've found yet, hopefully with some tweaking both of us can get it to suit our needs.

 

[SWmechE]

StrPE,

In my search I also came across this that you may find useful.

http://www.imakenews.com/ptcexpress/e_article001573955.cfm?x=bgbLv5t,b3jsqcsB,w

At the bottom of the page you can download the files used... hopefully I'll be able to reverse engineer them to do what I want.

 

[chichuck]

SWmechE,

This is off-topic, but whenever I want to read a table such as the AISC database, I simply import it from a spreadsheet into a data table right in my Mathcad worksheet. Then use vlookup functions to get data out of that. I do not want to have to manage a bunch of other spreadsheet files along with my Mathcad worksheet file.

chichuck

 

[StrPE]

Thanks SWmechE, I'll give it a try. Keeping my fingers crossed.