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Re: Re: Mathematica 6 Graphics Options

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• Subject: [mg75863] Re: Re: Mathematica 6 Graphics Options
• From: "Forex Ample" <Forex at Ample.com>
• Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:05:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks. That does the trick.

Another tip for ListPlots: use Tooltip[ ] to create popup coordinates.

"Asghar Bhatti" <masgharbhatti at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f21cnd$5o3$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>
> One way to get coordinates of the points clicked at in a graphics is as
> follows.
>
> 1. Create a graphic.
> 2. From the Graphics menu select Drawing Tools
> 3. Use the Line segments tool to select points on the graphic
> 4. Select the graphic cell and press ctrl-shift-E (Show Expression).
> 5. Scrol down to the end of expression to find LineBox command. The
> coordinates in the LineBox are the points that you clicked at.
> LineBox[{{2.665520888462469, 0.11367539029046214`}, {2.366234332564928,
>     0.3978773031864553}, {1.9734207279494067`, 0.662811289784415}, {
>     1.1971462235901613`, 0.5183018425491642}, {1.4216111405133167`,
>     0.29190370854727143`}, {0.7669217994874471, 0.13294331658849567`}, {
>     0.3273446705129348, 0.5472037319962144}, {0.7669217994874471,
>     0.8265886633176991}, {1.720897696410857, 0.8073207370196657}}]
>
> -- Asghar Bhatti
>
>
> On 5/10/07, Forex Ample <Forex at ample.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ouch. I used this feature quite often, for instance to get data from 
>> plots
>> in scanned or PDF-ed articles. Indeed, it does not seem to work 
>> anymore...
>>
>> "dh" <dh at metrohm.ch> wrote in message news:f1s1t6$fi3$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > In Mathematica 5 you could Option-Click into a 2D graphics and the
>> > coordinates
>> >
>> > of the cursor were displayed at lower left of the windows. By Ctrl-C 
>> > you
>> >
>> > could even copy the coordinates to the clipboard. I am searching for
>> >
>> > quit some time in vain for an equivalent feature in Mathematica 6. Does
>> > anybody
>> >
>> > know if there is a replacement.
>> >
>> > Daniel Huber
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> -- Asghar
>
> 

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  • Re: Mathematica 6 Graphics Options
    • From: "Forex Ample" <Forex@Ample.com>