Re: LocatorPane and tooltips for the locators
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- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 03:05:50 -0500 (EST)
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Dear Dr. Kragler, Many thanks for your kind response. It has been useful in solving partially the problem I had. Kind regards E. Martin-Serrano De: Dr. Robert Kragler [mailto:kragler at hs-weingarten.de] Enviado el: s=E1bado, 30 de noviembre de 2013 12:08 Para: E. Martin-Serrano Asunto: Re: LocatorPane and tooltips for the locators Dear Dr. Martin-Serrano, reading your question about LocatorPane and Tooltip I am not quite sure whether my reply partly answers your problem with Tooltip. Recently, I had a problem where I wanted to display points x_k + y_k I in the complex plane with Graphics but at the same time show the coordinates with Tooltip. The essential tip came from Michael Trott/WRI which is an extension not given in the documentation for Tooltip. I just show some snippets of code which could be perhaps illuminating for you : pts={ x1+y1 I, ..., xn+yn I } ; ttip=Tooltip[#, #1[[1]] . {1,I} //TraditionalForm, TooltipStyle -> {Red,Bold}] &; Show[ ContourPlot[...], Graphics[{ ...., Table[ {Red,PointSize[Medium], Point @ {Re[#],Im[#]}& @ pts[[i]] // ttip}, {i,pts//Length}], .... }], AspectRatio-> Automatic, opts] This shows the points Point @ {xi,yi} as red dots and at the same time Tooltip displays with pts[[i]] // ttip the corresponding value (xi + yi \[ImaginaryI] ) in traditional form. Best regards, Robert Kragler Am 30.11.2013 08:25, schrieb E. Martin-Serrano: Hi, I have the below sketchy *LocatorPane* piece of code with dynamic locators, defined over the set of points pts . I use this device to deal with multiple 2D Bezier curves, which involve several sets of grouped locators for the controls of each curve. *LocatorPane* imposes some restrictions on dynamic programs. **Locator** itself is (should be) much more flexible but it does not work for me yet. When the dynamic stuff gets just a bit complex (not very much) *Locator* does not work (definitively) and *LocatorPane* seems to be much more agile and handy, by far. But it imposes other restrictions not to be mentioned here, except for the one about *Tooltip* on the locators (as far as I am aware of it). Now, it follows the *LocatorPane* piece of pseudo code with dynamic locators ---------------------------------------- pts = *list of {xi, yi} locator coordinates* calcAll[pts_,stuff_]:= (* calcAllBody to treat secondary dynamic items*) LocatorPane[Dynamic[pts, (pts = #; calcAll[pts, suff]) &], *LocatorPaneBody*] ----------------------------- This generates a LocatorPane with the set ts of dynamic locators partitioned according it is needed. But, I need the locators to be wrapped by *Tooltip*, so that the current position of each pts[[i]] could be displayed at will, however I can't find how this can be done within the *LocatorPane* construct, since the locators themselves are defined in the heading part of the construct, namely: *Dynamic[pts, (pts = #; calcAll[pts, suff]) &]*, in no other place of the *LocatorPane* construct are the locators mentioned. Currently I have this working with inset labels on every locator, but it is not the proper solution at all. By the way, my previous post on Intersecting Bezier is just about 2D curves. Any help will be appreciated. Cheers. E. Martin-Serrano -- Prof. Dr. Robert Kragler Hasenweg 5 D-88090 Immenstaad, Germany Phone : +49 (7545) 2833 or 3500 Email : kragler at hs-weingarten.de <mailto:kragler at hs-weingarten.de> URL : http://portal.hs-weingarten.de/web/kragler