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Re: ListPlot w/ Dynamic[] choice of external data files

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  • Subject: [mg93709] Re: ListPlot w/ Dynamic[] choice of external data files
  • From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:14:15 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <gg62q3$57f$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

why don't you start with the example in the documentation for
FileNameSetter:

{FileNameSetter[Dynamic[f]], Dynamic[f]}

you can now do with the filename f whatever you want within the second
dynamic, e.g.:

{
FileNameSetter[Dynamic[f]],
Dynamic[ListPlot[{Flatten[Import[f, "Table"]], baseline}]]
}

For production code you might want to make that more cute (Panel and
Column), save (DynamicModule) and comfortable (initialize the filename
to something useful):

DynamicModule[{fname = ToFileName[{$HomeDirectory, "Desktop"}]},
 Panel[Column[{
    FileNameSetter[Dynamic[fname]],
    Dynamic[ListPlot[Flatten[Import[fname, "Table"]]]]
    }]]
 ]

hth,

albert


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