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Re: Reading Coordinates from Plot

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  • Subject: [mg80119] Re: Reading Coordinates from Plot
  • From: dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:29:39 -0400 (EDT)
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On 12    , 14:24, jrc <jrch... at mcn.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Apparently v6.0.1 no longer has the mouse functionality that
> enables one to easily read coordinates from a plot. In v5.2
> and before (as mentioned in several books such as Navigator),
> one could select the plot by clicking on it, then hold down
> CTRL key and move the mouse to read coordinates. In v6.0.1
> this does not work. Nor can I find any equivalently convenient
> functionality.
>
> This is one example, by the way, of the deficiencies of the new
> "Help" system. It seems to provide an entry only into a list of
> Mathematica symbols, with very little guidance as to what
> functionality is available. Searching under many combinations
> of 'mouse', 'plot', and even 'read coordinates', I see nothing
> useful except oblique references to the new 'manipulate' function.
>
> Looking under 'manipulate' documentation brings one to a complicated,
> new system, which takes time to digest. In a short look (half hour)
> I find nothing relevant to reading coordinates from a plot. The
> Dynamic MousePosition function seems to get partway there, but seems
> only to output screen coordinates - not very useful. Is it really
> necessary to go to this obtuse new system to regain the easy reading
> of coordinates via mouse???
>
> John Chaffer

I am sure that I don't help you very much but searching the MathGroup
archives
for May you will find at least three different threads with subjects
relevant to your
question.

Dimitris



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