So Mathcad Prime matrices now have a new matrix navitor which gives you a free-range window into your data. Much better than sliders.
Sounds promising, so I'm looking foreward to see what they will look and feel like in P3. Any chance to get a color for highlighted expressions (which replaced the old underline cursor) which is better visible? On some notebooks I barely see it and editing becomes a trial and error game. Maybe the color could be customizeable.
The Ribbons UI is here, love it or hate it .. its here, Microsoft said so. I like it .. everything one click away.
I neither love nor hate ribbons - I don't care if a program uses classic menus or ribbons as long as I can make my job done as quick, easy and confortable as possible. And concerning that MC15 rules clearly over P2 in my opinion. I very seldom have to go into the menues of MC15. We have convenient keyboard shortuts, double click options (formatting results, plots etc.), right mouse click menus, which come very natural and intuitive and floating palettes we could place near the space we are working (while I often had wished to get the programming commands which I don't know the keyboard short of via right click menu).
In Prime we don't have most of the aforementioned and the keyboard shortcuts don't work with foreign keyboards (and I placed a call concerning that, too, and think it resulted in an SPR ;-). And having to use the menus is inconvenient, no matter if ribbons or classic.
I am sure it wasn't a decision of the development department to go public with a piece of software like Prime 1. And while P2 and as we heard P3 will have some improvements over MC15 (you had pointed out some and there sure are even more) - as long as Prime still is missing features we already had in MC15 for a long time and as long as we face those performance issues (maybe not that much on the most modern machines, but that should not be the benchmark) and bad UX, I fear that some Prime bashing will proceed and it won't be unjustly. But of course it will be somewhat unfair against the developers of Prime. I am sure they would have waited longer until they would have made their work public and I guess they would have needed quite some more ressources to do the job, too. I guess PTC management had underestimated the effort necessary to write a program like Mathcad nearly from scratch. But from the point of a user its not really understandable why a company would follow a program version with one with much less features and capability, even if there are some improvements, too.
BTW, what I had in mind in first place when I wrote about the support for mixed units in matrices not being fully flawlessly implemented was not the issue I opened a support call for (which simply is a bug) but I was thinking of the following. That we cannot chose the display units for matrices as we aould like. In the example below I would like to see the first element as mm and the second as lb. This seems only to be possible if I access the elements individually, as we don't have a way to edit the units inside the matrix. That issue is not applicable for a support call, as I don't consider it a bug, rather a it would be a case for a feature request, as its a natural feature which one would expect to exists but it doesn't. The only mechanism for feature request PTC offers and I know about would be the creation of an "idea" in one of the many subforums of this community. But to be honest, I have very little confidence that those ideas are scanned by PTC staff on a regular basis and may lead to implementation one day. I also notice that the community users don't seem to care much about the ideas and the possibilty to vote, maybe for similar reasons.
Here the example I was talking about
