Re: How to find which variable caused the trigger in Manipulate[]
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- Subject: [mg103788] Re: How to find which variable caused the trigger in Manipulate[]
- From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:00:31 -0400 (EDT)
"Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org> wrote in message news:...
>
> Again, I want something like this
>
> Manipulate[
> process[( pickTheCorrectControlVariableWhichChanged ],
> {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1}, Initialization :>
>
> (process[arg_] := Module[{}, Plot[Sin[arg*x], {x, -Pi, Pi}]])
> ]
>
>
I made some progress and I think I have a solution.
I save the old value of each control variable in a global variable, then in
the Manipulate expression, I check, using an If statement which current
value of the control variable is different from the old value. I got it to
work ok finally.
Here is an example:
olda = 999;
oldb = 999;
Manipulate[
If[olda != a, {olda = a; Style[StringJoin["a=", ToString[a]]]},
If[oldb != b, {oldb = b; Style[StringJoin["b=", ToString[b]]]},
Text["this message should NOT show up!"]]], {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1},
LocalizeVariables -> True, TrackedSymbols -> {a, b}]
Here is another example as the above, but with plot
olda = 999;
oldb = 999;
Manipulate[
If[olda != a, {olda = a; Plot[Sin[a*x], {x, -Pi, Pi}, PlotLabel -> "a"]},
If[oldb != b, {oldb = b; Plot[Sin[b*x], {x, -Pi, Pi}, PlotLabel -> "b"]},
Text["this message should NOT show up!"]]], {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1},
LocalizeVariables -> True, TrackedSymbols -> {a, b}, ContinuousAction ->
False]
So, the above seems to do what I want. i.e. a way to find which control
variable changed.
The problem is where to save these olda and oldb global variables as I am
writing this for a demo.
I could ofcourse have a Module around the whole thing as follows and have
olda and olodb as local variables to the module
Module[{oldb = 999, olda = 999},
Manipulate[If[olda != a, {olda = a; Plot[Sin[a*x], {x, -Pi, Pi},
PlotLabel -> "a"]},
If[oldb != b, {oldb = b; Plot[Sin[b*x], {x, -Pi, Pi}, PlotLabel ->
"b"]},
Text["this message should NOT show up!"]]], {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1},
LocalizeVariables -> True, TrackedSymbols -> {a, b}, ContinuousAction ->
False
]
]
But I am not sure if this is allowed in a demonstration. I need to check. If
so, then my problem is finally solved
--Nasser