Questions relating to the dynamic family of functions in Mathematica, such as Dynamic, DynamicModule and Manipulate.

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Dynamic Updating CreateDialog Problem

In this code, One cannot close the Dialog: {TogglerBar[Dynamic[x], Range[5]], Dynamic[x], Dynamic[CreateDialog[x]]} If I use DynamicModule this way: the Dialog ...
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Manipulate slider unresponsive after suspend in Linux

I've tested Linux Mathematica versions 7-9 on various Linux distributions, with identical problem: after suspend/resume cycle my Manipulate controls (i.e. sliders&buttons) appear unresponsive, ...
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Labelling Curves Using ListLogLinearPlot within DynamicModule (So Close)

I currently have a large number of time-series datasets in the form where the name and time-series transposed data, so I have a list of lists of names for datasets and their time-dependant data. The ...
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Comparing data sets with fade transitions (Code speed-up)

I am using the utility below for data comparison. However, with my real (more complex) charts the processing is quite slow, so setting the Pause time under ...
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Equivalent of MATLAB's “hold on” function

I'm making an animation where the number of iterations is known. I tried using Dynamic, as I prefer updating in real time over generating data before plotting. I ...
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Refresh dynamic variable when used with Get

I came across this issue with a more complicated program I was working on. Suppose we have a volatile variable data: ...
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Automatically evaluating related cells

I have the cells: In[1]:= l = 2 + 2; In[2]:= l >= 5 After evaluating them: Out[2]:= False Is there a way to evaluate ...
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How can I find ,Which InputField was recently updated?

I have 4 InputFields.I want to find which InputField was recently Updated out of all ...
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Cusom PopupMenu file selector

Lately I come across what I think not uninteresting problem which is a good exercise for the usage of Dynamic. Assume you have files in a directory structure (a ...
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How to display data in a Dynamic Pane?

How to display data in a Dynamic Pane without exponents? Some data: data = Range[1, 1000]; Slider data has to be added to data: ...
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Why animator smoothes dynamic updates, or how to make pacman drink beer

How could I make a pacman drink beer in Mathematica? This is what I have so far ...
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Problem with dynamic interaction between functions?

I have written two functions one for creating list of InputField ...
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How to dynamically update background colors using TrackedSymbols?

I wrote 2 functions names are BooleanTest and MainTest.The following code is below ...
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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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Memory leak in FE?

A very abridged example of what was originally a major leak ...
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Prevent PopupWindow from opening multiple windows

PopupWindow objects can be clicked multiple times, opening multiple popup windows for the same object. How can I prevent this? A bit more detail: I have an ...
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Interactively Manipulate Code

Bear with me, I'm a noob; I simply want to create a radio button bar that selects whether I want to add or subtract two numbers: ...
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Dynamically filling matrix with a[[n,m]] = 1/a[[m,n]]

I'm building a square matrix, with 1s on the diagonal and elements in U the inverse of elements in L, which are random integers drawn from the sequence 1, ..., 9. Given the nature of the problem I ...
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How can I monitor and detect when a website has changed?

I'd like to detect when a website has changed, in particular when new products are announced on a site that doesn't change to often. Here's the code I wrote but I don't think it is perfect. Also the ...
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Is SynchronousUpdating->False supposed to make this simple Dynamic example work?

x = 0; Dynamic[{x, Button["+1", Pause[6]; x++]}, SynchronousUpdating -> False] The documentation states that Dynamic and Manipulate will abort synchronous ...
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How to control dependent PopupMenus?

I created three interdependent PopupMenus with names demographic, region and ...
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How to prevent errors in Manipulate with ListPlot when a result is an empty list?

I am trying to plot two lists, where one is the reference list, and the other is only used to select and highlight the first list. Basically, I want to use the selection list ...
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Unique[] symbol not properly tracked

In a nutshell, why does this work (change y and see how the value updates) ...
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Automatically tracing and keeping ViewPoints in a list while manually rotating 3D graphics

I will need to make a video from the manual rotation of a 3D graphics. In order to do this, I will need to record the set of all view points that I made during rotation. There is method that we can ...
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Emulating a button push or a mouse click with Mathematica code

I need to perform a long action with a button. I tried setting the DynamicEvaluationTimeout, but it seems it doesn't work for me. So I want to try using several ...
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How to manipulate 2D plots?

When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ...
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Using the mouse coordinates to index a matrix

I would like to "write" on to a matrix using the mouse. That is, I would like to use the integer value of Locator coordinates (p) to index a matrix. Then, if the mouse button is down, write a 1 in ...
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Making ColorSetter work like a PasteButton

I might be missing something obvious here. I am building a palette for constructing code to make certain graphics. The idea is that my colleagues can click buttons instead of having to know the right ...
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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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How can you show data in a CDF Animate Graphic?

I want to show (dynamically) the curvature and torsion in a CDF to understand the quantitative measure of any points. Do you know what I have to do to show data in a ...
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How can I change a Slider's appearance?

I am using Mathematica 9.0 and Windows 7. I want to create a Slider that looks like the following: I tried the following: ...
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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 dynamically update Locator[] constraints?

I need to visualize Menelaus' theorem for a triangle with moving locators for each of six points. So the vertexes of the triangle can move in any possible way, and the three points on the sides of the ...
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Non-preemptive evaluation of a dynamic function? [duplicate]

I want to monitor a long calculation that is triggered by the release of a Slider. While one can indicate running calculations when the main evaluation loop is ...
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Combining two notebooks

I have a notebook which contain all the variables and defined functions. I want to do two tasks. As an example, I want to find the density and energy which have equations in terms of above mentioned ...
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Is it possible to select outliers on a graph and determine the index of the outliers?

I have a large data set of experimental data for which I have determined a theoretical fit. However, for some of the experimental data I took, there was systematic error, leading to the data deviating ...
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How can I increase the speed of a dynamic visualization of a Raster3D?

I have big list of data. Its length is 56203*100 and I partitioned biglist into 100 sublists, so each sublist length is ...
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Using Refresh[..] with TrackedSymbols

This is a very basic question, but I don't understand the following behavior. The usage to Refresh reads represents an object whose value in a Dynamic should be ...
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How do I stop my joystick from rotating a 3D graphic?

I am trying to use Mathematica to illustrate mixed strategies in Game Theory. I want my students to be able to use common joysticks as controllers. What I find, however, is that in addition to doing ...
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How to use custom Dynamic inside Manipulate

I was wondering if it is possible to use a custom Dynamic[var, function] inside a Manipulate. The reason for the need is this: ...
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How to anchor a Pane's scroll position to the bottom?

Suppose I have a Pane containing some dynamic text, for example that is being updated by a logging function. ...
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Alternative updating of a dynamic expression

I am looking for a solution to selectively update a dynamic expression expr which is dependent on multiple control variables ...
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Time range selector à la InteractiveTradingChart

I have time series data and I would like to interactively select a part of it. This problem is beautifully solved in the lower part of the InteractiveTradingChart command: I would like to be able ...
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SendMail in Dynamic Refresh executed continuously in a loop. UpdateInterval and TrackedSymbols ignored! [closed]

I am writing a program that simulates water storage with combined rain and pump fed supply. To allow a hypothetic employee in control to overview the situation while inspecting some remote locations ...
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In a Manipulate[], control timing of Autorun

I've made a gauge like instrument that will get used to prompt someone to maintain rhythmic breathing patterns during heart/brain coherence training. ...
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How to force Pane to always scroll to end of content? [duplicate]

Mathematica seems to know about the actual end of content position in a Pane if given large enough (but not too large$^1$) initial position value. Here, the ...
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How can I create CDF applications which adjust their screen dimensions based on the end-user's display configuration?

I am trying to make a CDF application that takes the user's system information (screen information) and adjusts the size of the application to give a seamless experience over different screens with ...
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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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How can I control Dynamic property?

I wrote a function, name as testingand saved in .m file. if you evaluate this function, we will get ...
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Why does ; suppress Dynamic output? [duplicate]

Dynamic[x=7]; does not make x dynamic! But Dynamic[x=7;] makes ...

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