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Re: forming continuous "trail" with Locator

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  • Subject: [mg79910] Re: forming continuous "trail" with Locator
  • From: Mariusz Jankowski <mjankowski at usm.maine.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 04:58:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Mark, you made the first argument of Manipulate a list, the three 
elements are AppendTo, LocatorPane, and FinishDynamic. You suppressed 
the output of the first and the output of the third is Null - which is 
exactly what you see in the Manipulate panel.

Bye, Mariusz




markholtuk at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> Does this do what you want?:
> 
> list = {};
> Manipulate[{AppendTo[list, pnt];
>   LocatorPane[
>    Dynamic[pnt], {Graphics[{{Gray, Disk[{32, 32}, 32]},
>       Dynamic[{Hue[0], Point /@ DeleteCases[list, Null]}]}]}],
>   FinishDynamic[]}, {pnt}]
> 
> - sorry about the Null next to the graphic - not sure why it's there!
> 
> To plot the trace afterwards:
> 
> ListPlot[DeleteCases[list, Null], Joined -> True, PlotRange -> All,
>  AspectRatio -> Automatic]
> 
> On Aug 6, 8:50 am, Murray Eisenberg <mur... at math.umass.edu> wrote:
>> Is there some way in Mathematica 6 to use a Locator so as to create a
>> continuous-appearing "trail" after you click and then drag the cursor
>> around?
>>
>> Of course one could write code allowing addition of points through
>> successive clicks, and then one could try to click repeatedly on
>> successive points very near one another, but that could get very tedious.
>>
>> I mean the sort of thing one gets in drawing programs (and with the
>> Mathematica 6 2D Drawing Tools).
>>
>> --
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> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Mark
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