Re: change slider to pointed rectangle or arrow
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- Subject: [mg79043] Re: change slider to pointed rectangle or arrow
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:23:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Is there any way within Manipulate to make a slider appear as either a
> filled rectangle topped by a triangle -- a shape very roughly like this
>
> ^
> | |
> _
>
> -- or as just a filled triangle or vertical arrow?
>
> What about in a more general expression using an explicit Slider?
>
> I ask this because the help gives the following example --
>
> Table[Slider[0.5, Appearance -> a], {a, {"UpArrow", "DownArrow"}}]
>
> -- but I see absolutely no differences in the results as from not using
> the Appearance option at all.
On my (WinXP) laptop, the "UpArrow" slider looks like the shape you
describe asa rectangle topped by a triangle, the "DownnArrow" slider is
the same only upside down.
--
Helen Read
University of Vermont