Re: Manipulate with Wrapping SetterBars
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- Subject: [mg80399] Re: Manipulate with Wrapping SetterBars
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:05:14 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
David Park wrote:
> I always find that there is a disconnect in the documentation in specifying
> the operation of various ControlTypes in Manipulate. Various Control
> elements have options but it is never quite clear how these options are to
> be supplied to the Manipulate statement.
>
> So here is a simple case that has me stymied. I want to display a long
> SetterBar and I want it to wrap to the size of the displayed expression. But
> I can't make the SetterBar wrap even though, according to the documentation,
> there is a SetterBar option that is suppose to make it wrap - and does for
> one example.
>
> nvalues = Flatten[Table[{2, 3, 5, 7, 10} 10^i, {i, 0, 4}]];
> Manipulate[
> Row[{Text["The value of the parameter n used in this case is: "],
> n}],
> {{n, First[nvalues], "n: "}, nvalues, ControlType -> SetterBar,
> Appearance -> "Row"}]
>
> I don't think the Appearance->"Row" option is even being picked up.
Your example does wrap for me. It no longer wraps if I remove the
Appearance->"Row" option.
> And even if it does get picked up, how can I control the wrapping width of
> the SetterBar?
No idea :-)
--
Helen Read
University of Vermont