Continuous updating in Manipulate
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- Subject: [mg100846] Continuous updating in Manipulate
- From: "Coleman, Mark" <Mark.Coleman at LibertyMutual.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:50:25 -0400 (EDT)
Greetings, I'm wondering if it is possible to create a Manipulate that continuously updates itself? More precisely, I'm working on a Manipulate that imports and displays a severe storm weather map from NOAA (http://www.weather.gov/) and then does some other calculations with the background data. Putting aside the calculations for a moment, one method for interacting with this data is to create a button that updates the map when clicked. Another way would be to have the map update itself regularly, say every x minutes, without any intervention from the user. In this way the user is always seeing the most current map without the need to click the button (note: The NOAA map updates on their web site every 5 minutes, so this is not real time updating). How might this be done in MathematicaMathematicaMathematicaMathematicaMathematicaMathematicaMathematicaMathematica? Is there some sort of timed EventHandler that could be used? Thanks, Mark