Re: Reading Coordinates from Plot
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- Subject: [mg80120] Re: [mg80085] Reading Coordinates from Plot
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Evidently you joined the discussion about this later than many who
encountered the same problem with 6.0. The lack of that 5.2
functionality is no doubt necessitated by the addition in 6.0 of all
sorts of behavior governed by mouse click/key combinations. Yet it's a
functionality that's hard to duplicate and seems to require code going
well beyond Manipulate.
Search the MathGroup archives and you'll find several workarounds for
this. You can find one thread by "Locator question", but other ways
were proposed.
The following code, based upon some posts of "Albert" to that thread,
allows you to click points ONLY on the graph of the function and see the
coordinates of that point below the plot, where from which you can copy
the current coordinate pair and paste it elsewehere. Unfortunately, as
it stands it does not allow you to produce all at once, and hence to
copy, all the points you've clicked.
trackPointOnPlot[f_,{a_,b_},strt_: Automatic]:=
Module[
{start=strt/.Automatic->a},DynamicModule[{p={start,f[start]}},
Column[{
LocatorPane[Dynamic[p,(p={First@#,f[First@#]})&],
Plot[f[x],{x,a,b}]],
Dynamic[p]
}]
]
]
(* examples to try *)
trackPointOnPlot[Cos,{0,10},Pi]
trackPointOnPlot[Cos,{0,10}]
jrc 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
>
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- From: jrc <jrchaff@mcn.net>
- Reading Coordinates from Plot