Re: Manipulate question
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- Subject: [mg94562] Re: [mg94379] Manipulate question
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:35:51 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:47:48 -0500 (EST), Coleman, Mark wrote: > Greetings > > I'm working on a Manipulate-based interface that takes user input from > several drop down menus (in my application there are 9 of them) and then > runs a set of calculations based upon the user's choices. By default > Manipulate will run the calculation every time the user changes any of > the drop down menus. Ideally I'd like to have the interface not do any > computation until the user makes all of their selections and then > explicitly initiates the calculation (ideally using something like a > 'Calculate' button). Does anyone have an example of how this might work? > > Thanks, > > Mark As documented on the Manipulate function home page... "With the setting ContinuousAction->None, an explicit Update button is displayed, and expr is not re-evaluated until this is pressed." It looks like this is precisely what you're looking for. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.