Re: Using the slider values in a Manipulate
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- Subject: [mg98969] Re: Using the slider values in a Manipulate
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:36:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
> How can I use the values adjusted with the sliders in a Manipulate
> later in the notebook?
> The only way seems to be the DynamicModule, but that's not exactly
> what I want.
> To be more specific: I'm trying to write a notebook for fitting a
> model function to experimental data, and I want it to be reusable
> since I'll have to use it on different data files again and again.
> I want to plot the data and the model inside a Manipulate, and use the
> sliders to adjust reasonable startig values for my parameters. That
> does work very well, but the next step would be to insert these
> starting values (from the slider adjustments) as starting values in
> FindFit. How do I achieve this? I don't understand how I could use
> DynamicModule to do this, but what other options do I have.
there was another post just today which asks exactly the same thing, so
you might want to check that thread for solutions, too. Here is a short
answer:
Manipulate[
parameter1 = n;
Plot[Sin[n x], {x, 0, 2 \[Pi]}, Frame -> True, ImageSize -> 400]
,
{n, 0, 1}
]
you can just set a global variable within the Manipulate body and use
that in the rest of the notebook...
hth,
albert