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Locator Appearance mystery in LocatorPane

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  • Subject: [mg79984] Locator Appearance mystery in LocatorPane
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:45:30 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Here's a LocatorPane inside a DynamicModule with a Locator initialized 
at the origin and where additional Locator points will be created at 
mouse clicks:

   dot=Automatic;

   DynamicModule[{pts = {{0, 0}}},
     LocatorPane[Dynamic[pts],
       Graphics[Point /@ pts],
       Appearance -> dot,
       LocatorAutoCreate -> All]
   ]

This works as expected. (The setting Automatic for Appearance is the 
default.)

Now change the definition of dot to:

   dot=Graphics[Disk[],ImageSize->5]

Still OK.  But, finally, change the defintion of dot to:

   Graphics[{PointSize[Medium],Point[{0,0}]}]

Now it does NOT work as expected: Although the initialized points do 
appear correctly, and a new dot appears at the first click in the 
output, upon each additional click a new dot does not appear but, 
instead, that one new dot moves to the location of the click.

Diagnosis?  Cure?

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