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Re: Nudge? (Coarse and Fine Manipulation)

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• Subject: [mg119663] Re: Nudge? (Coarse and Fine Manipulation)
• From: Yves Klett <yves.klett at googlemail.com>
• Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:23:12 -0400 (EDT)
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By pressing Alt (Windows, dunno about Mac) while pulling a slider, you
get finer control over the input value.

Regards,
Yves

Am 16.06.2011 10:01, schrieb AES:
> Suppose you want to have a slider control that does coarse adjustment of 
> an input variable in a Manipulate (range 0 to 150, let's say), and then 
> a much finer adjustment button or slider you can use to nudge that value 
> up or down by a much smaller amount (steps of 0.001, let's say) near any 
> critical transition points.
> 
> If the input variable to be controlled is x, I suppose one could have a 
> coarse slider to set the value of x0 in the range 0 <= x0 <=150  and a 
> fine slider to set x1 in the range  -0.001 <= x1 <= +0.001; and then have
> x = x0+x1 as the first statement in the active part of the Manipulate.
> 
> Other better ways to do this?
>