Re: Capturing the output(s) from a Manipulate?
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- Subject: [mg103408] Re: Capturing the output(s) from a Manipulate?
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:24:22 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
AES wrote: > Suppose I have a Manipulate[ ] that creates one or more plots, tables, > whatever other output. I exercise it though various values of the > controls until I understand how these outputs change, and then decide > that I want to capture and "freeze" into the notebook the outputs for > three specific sets of these control values, call them cv1, cv2, cv3. > > [After which I may even delete the Manipulate command.] > > What's the recommended process for doing this for each of those three > selected outputs, as I generate them, so that they'll survive any future > Cell >> Delete All Output menu commands? > > Some kind of Copy/paste? Some kind of style change for the Output cells > as they're generated? > > [Might be nice to have a built-in "Save this output" button in the basic > Manipulate interface that would do just that when clicked?] Well, there is. Click on the little + in the upper right corner of the Manipulate panel, and from the dropdown menu select Paste Snapshot. You can also right-click Copy on the output of a Manipulate, then paste into a new (Input) cell, but Paste Snapshot is a bit more useful because it preserves the actual input. (Try it and you'll see.) -- Helen Read University of Vermont