Questions relating to the dynamic family of functions in Mathematica, such as Dynamic, DynamicModule and Manipulate.
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Mathematica Minecraft
Some time ago I asked myself: with all these great graphics and interactive capabilities of Mathematica, what kinds of 3D games can be implemented in it? And the answer which came to mind is ...
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EventHandler {“MouseDown”, 1} with PassEventsDown -> True not working as expected
I want my EventHandler to respond only to left mouse clicks and pass the right mouse click to the built in event handler.
I have tried
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Cell output controlled by CellFrameLabel Checkbox?
The following generates a Cell that returns the state of the checkbox when evaluated:
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Can't see dynamic updating when my function is evaluated inside Dynamic [duplicate]
I defined a function, solve, with a free variable n, which changes while solve is running. Therefore, evaluating
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Resetting an animation with a custom button
I have the following code, which accepts a function via an InputField, and then gradually draws that function in a Plot using ...
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How to Initiate a queued evaluation from a Dynamic GUI without using a Button
I have a Dynamic-based GUI, and one part of it will kick off a calculation that could take longer than the default 5-second dynamic timeout.
I know that ...
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Moving From Dynamic Module to Manipulate
In trying to implement Vitaly's suggestion about how to take control of Locator events,
I have been able to make headway using ...
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Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
I've been struggling with a number of hangs, dynamic timeouts, and outright crashes when using the search/documentation center in version 9. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling and clearing ...
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Function that evaluates in notebook does not evaluate in CDF
I am trying to access the values of a dynamic value outside function package. Within the function package, the function is defined under the Dynamic module option. There is an error with this. I ...
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Interpolation with boundary conditions
I'm working on a sales projection, trying to create some flexibility in handle the forecast using locators.
The toy code is something like this:
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Difference between action of a Slider and a HorizontalGauge
First time posting. I am working on creating some interactive materials for the engineering classes that I teach and have run into an issue that I cannot puzzle out. I am using a slider to allow for a ...
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Trying to access element of a matrix [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Question about MapThread and Dynamic
I'm trying to extract element of a matrix. Let's suppose that the matrix is
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Dynamic matrix multiplication
I have the following problem:
I want to multiply two matrices and sum them to another matrix C. A.B+ 2B Easy!
The matrix A varies as a function of three inputs a,b and c. The second matrix, B, is a ...
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How can I seperate specific elements from the list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Question about MapThread and Dynamic
I write a function name as inputFieldsList and it returns both ...
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How to make MousePosition more reliable
This takes a little patience to reproduce, but I got a screenshot of it in version 9 on Mac OS X 10.7.5:
With a small Graphics object, it occasionally happens that ...
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sliding a tangent line along a curve
I am confused by Dynamic. I am trying to slide a tangent line along a curve, without using DynamicModule, so that I can include ...
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In a DynamicModule, is it possible to use multiple EventHandler declarations? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Wrapping EventHandler by Table
I am running Mathematica 7. However, I am new to using Dynamic, ...
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DynamicModule in packages [closed]
I want to write a Package with a function in it.
fun[]:=
(DynamicModule[{},(a=10;a)]) .
This works fine,but when i call ...
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How to work around Mathematica hanging when showing a large SparseArray?
Note: This is fixed in 9.0.1.
In Mathematica 9, if I display any large SparseArray object in the default way (which looks something like ...
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How to save Manipulate bookmarks permanently?
I would like to save current Manipulate parameter values to load them again later. Bookmarks (previously discussed here and here) work fine until the cell is ...
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How to extract value from dynamic list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to extract the numerical value of a dynamical variable
Dynamic wraps a list that I cannot extract values from
I want to extract value from list dynamically,this is ...
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How can I align the labels of the buttons on a setter bar to the button centers?
I tried to align the labels on the buttons of a SetterBarto the button centers. This is my code:
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Creating a notebook that has cells of a certain style password protected
I am teaching students how to use Mathematica. I want to create a problem set that has cells with a certain style (probably Input or some new style that is a variant of Input) locked down so that the ...
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How to improve these WASD + mouse look 3D controls?
Insipred by this question and the corresponding answer I've written a code for full-screen exploration of 3D scenes using standard WASD and mouse look controls. Here it is.
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Using Control Objects with TabView [duplicate]
I have a number of different tabs on my 'dashboard'. Each tab has a few different Controls (drop down boxes) that the user makes selections with. These selections determine what is displayed on the ...
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Can I write a package with dynamic variables?
My Notebook has no functions, but has a lot repetitive code with dynamic variables. I want to put the repetitive code into a package. Can i write a Package with functions that use dynamic variables?
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Why does Dynamic output cause CPU usage when onscreen?
I write such a line in Mathematica:
{Slider[Dynamic[s]], Dynamic[f[x_] := s*x]}
After evaluation, the CPU immediately runs at full power. And if you scroll the ...
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Problem with DynamicModule in code to import data from several .txt files [closed]
The purpose of the code below is to import data from several .txt files and then plot it using ListPlot. The data files are .txt files with comma-separated data ...
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Manipulate Exp[I θ]+b Exp[-I θ]
I've uploaded an image showing a demonstration I'd like to create, but I definitely need help. There is a lot of talent on this list, so maybe someone can help me get started learning how to add ...
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Dynamically updating interactive objects in Mathematica
Is it possible to create interactive code in Mathematica (via EventHandler[] or Manipulate[] perhaps) that continually updates some calculation based on external data in the time when no user input is ...
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Interactively select a row/column of a Grid
I need a simple way to display tabular data (preferably with Grid) and also be able to select a row or column of the table. I've tried different approaches, but I ...
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Dynamically link cell content in Mathematica?
Is it possible to dynamically link the content of two cells? For example, can I set up a Notebook with two text cells that display the same value, and if the user types in one the other updates, etc.? ...
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“With” as part of the “Dynamic Interactivity Language”
I noticed that in Mathematica's Function Navigator With is listed as being part of the "Dynamic Interactivity Language".
It is not the first (or even the fourth, ...
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How to create animated snowfall?
Well, the title is self-explanatory. What sorts of snowfall can we generate using Mathematica? There are two options I suggest to consider:
1) Continuous GIF animations with smallest possible number ...
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How do I make an EventHandler non-responsive to MouseMoved after a mouse click?
Consider the following code. After evaluating it, when I move the mouse over the output text, it prints 1, and when I click the mouse on ...
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Quickly look-up usages, options and attributes of symbols
When I'm writing code in the front-end, I find myself very often looking up the list of options of a symbol over and over again in the documentation center. In most cases you find there a list of ...
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How to make a Tooltip display dynamic based on a parameter value?
If k=3, then I would like the following to say "Sine Curve, k=3" when you hover over the output of the Tooltip command:
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How to change FieldSize to be the same as dropdown menu width in PopupMenu?
I've tried the following code to change the FieldSize but I can't make it equal the actual value of MenuSize and I tried to ...
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How to edit InputField while using EventHandler?
I try to edit InputField while using EventHandler's MouseClicked, but the ...
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How to efficiently get the value from form UI built with dynamic InputField
Here is the code that I used to make a tabular UI.
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Does Mathematica have a built-in date picker?
Does Mathematica have an interactive date input control that lets the user choose a date by browsing to a calendar view and returning the selected date as a date list? For example, something like the ...
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Changing the number of locators with SetterBar
Typically when adding locators I would use a button i.e. something along the lines
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why does a variable become real when using the second argument of Dynamic?
Version 9, on windows 7
Please compare these 2 very simple examples
Manipulate[
x,
Row[{Manipulator[Dynamic[x], {0, 10, 1/100}]}],
{{x, 1}, None}
]
and
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How to execute a function each time the slider is dragged?
I've created a function f and a slider:
Slider[Dynamic[y],{1,4}]
How to execute/call f ...
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How to control dependent PopupMenus?
I created three interdependent PopupMenus with names demographic, region and ...
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Simple blink comparator for two images
I tried to build a simple 'blink comparator' - where you can click on an image repeatedly to switch between two similar images. (An old-fashioned notion in the days of powerful image processing ...
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Can I select or implement a Manipulate bookmark from an arbitrary control?
I understand how I can select a bookmark from the "+" menu of a Manipulate. Is there a way to select a bookmark from an arbitrary control, or define a control that ...
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Execute code when file is modified
I have a function the takes some time to complete. The function imports data from a .csv, parses it, and plots certain vectors from there. The .csv is constantly being updated from an external ...
