Questions on the Manipulate function of Mathematica, a function that allows the interactive manipulation of certain parameters in a Mathematica expression.
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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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Interpreting text entry and splitting it in a Manipulate text field?
I have the following program that plots the number of trigram appearances across a corpus of textual information between 1964 and 1989 (apologies for the messy code):
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Why does Manipulate execute the expression twice?
When I execute Foobar[] in the code below and move a slider, the variable grad is printed twice. Why is this? How can I make the ...
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Stopping Evaluation of Manipulate after it goes through once
I do quite a bit of textual analysis with Mathematica, and am currently making some Manipulate objects to walk people through key terms in the database.
One issue ...
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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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Why aren't the locators independently enabled/disabled?
I am wondering why the Enabled setting for the first locator (point1) overrides the Enabled setting for the second locator ...
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How do I constrain the region where I can drag a Locator?
How do I constrain the region where I can drag a Locator to conform to rules, including rules that apply to computations resulting from the value of the ...
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How to eliminate the backward play in Export of Manipulate?
I find that the Export of Manipuate contains backforward play, see a simplified example:
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How can I have interruptible computations inside a manipulate?
Here's a perfect example of my problem:
Manipulate[Pause[n], {n, {1, 10}, ContinuousAction -> False}, SynchronousUpdating -> False]
It is illustrated by ...
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Control which variables get embedded inside Manipulate
While trying to analyse several different datasets I got what I thought was a good idea: define a "function" that returns a Manipulate object. But this has some ...
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Subdividing a polygon , equivalent fractions
I see that I was a real "doofus" here and my original question was flawed. You can't divide a polygon like you can a circle or a rectangle, except in special cases... I should have seen that right ...
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Shading in squares crossed by a diagonal
You have a rectangle and it is diagonal. How many squares will be crossed by the diagonal (I guess assuming the side length of the rectangle are nice whole numbers)
I've seen an implementation in ...
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Manipulate flickering and consuming lots of CPU
I am new to Mathematica and was experimenting with a simply problem of plotting a tangent to a curve and being able to move the point at which the tangent is drawn using ...
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A command for outputting a list of parameter values in a Manipulate interface
I am looking for a command that will output a list of values that correspond to the current parameter values manually set on a particular Manipulate interface.
For ...
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Locators in Manipulate not moving properly
I thought a simple Mathematica kerning machine (for adjusting the space between characters) would be interesting, but I'm having trouble with the locators. (There are a number of other questions ...
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Display position information out of ListPlots inside a Manipulate
I often have the situation where I'll use Manipulate[] to compare and examine 2 or more lists. A simplified example follows:
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Proper way to handle free variables in manipulate/plot?
It took me a while today to figure out that Manipulate (used with Plot) requires that the variable I'm manipulating be an actual ...
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Export animation of a Manipulate autorun sequence?
I've got a Manipulate that does a vector field plot. Basically a function that returns a list of Graphics objects and a couple of sliders:
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How to add several Locators to a Graphic with a mouse click?
Background: Suppose I have something like this:
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Placing Manipulate controls in multiple columns
I have a Manipulate construct with a square Graphic on the left side and all the controls placed on the right side. There are so ...
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How to stop Manipulate changing view point
When using the following manipulate I can rotate the plot and manipulate the value without my view point changing;
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How to present a Graphic and a Table in close proximity to each other
Often, with a Plot or within Manipulate I want to display a graph and, in close proximity to it, a table showing the results of ...
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Using more than one set of Locators in a Manipulate
I need to add locators dynamically to different sets.
With one set this works OK:
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How to connect a checkbox with part of the graphics?
I'd like to have a checkbox in a Manipulate expression, governing whether part of the graphics is displayed or not. For instance, assume that I have a surface with ...
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Question about modifying a Slider2D control
Background: I want to develop a custom control, based on a 2D slider. I currently have this ( working ) example.
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Manipulate Evaluation Order Problem
I seem to be getting some unintended results from a nested Manipulate that I have not been able to resolve. I boiled down the problem I'm having to a simplified ...
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Control variable and body variable decoupling in Manipulate
This issue was raised as an offside problem in this thread. Consider the following example, that does not work as expected:
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Create a CDF file with a plot that cannot be edited by double-clicking
I have created a CDF file that contains a Manipulate object with a plot. I intend to embed the file in a web site, so that users can use interactive sliders to ...
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How to add graphics options to an already produced plot having manipulator?
I am new to Mathematica and stuck with one problem i.e.
How can I add a graphics option to an already made plot which a manipulator to control itself.
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Enabled option for slider in Manipulate not updating dynamically
In a Manipulate expression I have a slider control which has the Enabled option
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How to convert String to an Expression inside Manipulate which depends on control variable
Normally, in Global context, these 2 are equivalent
eqn = "r-x";
r = -2;
Plot[ToExpression[eqn], {x, -5, 5}]
and
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How can I restore context menu functionality to a Manipulate that contains Locators?
Before adding a Locator to a Manipulate, I can easily print or export the result using a context menu:
But after adding a ...
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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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Make a slider controlling a generated character's code value
If I execute the following code:
char = 97;
Slider[Dynamic@ToExpression@FromCharacterCode@char, {0, 5}]
the slider will fail to change the value of ...
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Localizing variables within a Manipulate
I have a notebook with several examples of very similar computations, each involving the same variable/parameter names of the ingredients used in a final ...
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Manipulate with explicit updates
I want to use Manipulate (I am open to other alternatives) to apply one of two different functions f or ...
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saving Manipulate data inside a notebook
I want to send a few Manipulate Plots and regular plots to my advisor in a notebook. I ...
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Vertical RadioButtonBar in Manipulate
I want to make a vertical RadioButtonBar in Manipulate. So far I only have a workaround that looks like this:
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Manipulate and ExclusionsStyle
How can I change ExclusionsStyle for a plot inside Manipulate?
Here's a sample that (though it shouldn't) seems to produce ...
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How to use button to evaluate a cell
I would like to create a button that when I click it it evaluates a cell containing a manipulate code. Also, I would like another button that when I click the output of manipulate disappears.
How can ...
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Track object movement
Referring to this link I happen to realize that actually the trace being projected is dependent on an equation and not on disk or circle. Though I was presuming that it is getting traced because of ...
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A problem with Deploy and Locator in a Manipulate
I recently asked a question about Locators not behaving properly (see Locators and Table within a Manipulate are not behaving) and thought I had figured out the answer. However, as I played around to ...
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Label names within Manipulate with ControlType->RadioButton
I modified an example from the documentation to have a RadioButton control over a specific list of values:
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Thread[] seems to reset changes made with Manipulate[]
Recently I have been working on group theory and I have found checking for associativity for specific Cayley tables to be rather tedious so I wrote a program to do it for me. Most of the time I would ...
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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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“Show” with Manipulate runs fine normally, but gives errors as a CDF
I've simplified my code to what can reproduce my error. Basically, I have two lines:
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Upon opening my notebook, I must evaluate cell for code to work properly
I am new to Mathematica. Once I evaluate the cell containing the code, my Manipulate works as desired; however, if I open the file and do not evaluate the cell, the Manipulate goes haywire. Can ...
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How to dynamically change the Appearance of a control in Manipulate?
How can I dynamically change the appearance of b? Strangely it works for the Enabled state but not for the Appearance.
Thanks.
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How can I highlight the vanishing-partials in an interactive 3D plot?
I am using Manipulate and Plot3D to plot a function with two real variables and two extra parameters.
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