LocatorAutoCreate in 2-parameter Manipulate?
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- Subject: [mg109188] LocatorAutoCreate in 2-parameter Manipulate?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:51:29 -0400 (EDT)
The following code works to plot, for a simple harmonic oscillator, the
phase plane trajectory through the point where you move the Locator:
soln[t_, x0_, v0_] := {x0 Cos[t] + v0 Sin[t], v0 Cos[t] - x0 Sin[t]}
Manipulate[{x0, v0} = u;
ParametricPlot[soln[t, x0, v0], {t, 0, 4 \[Pi]},
PlotRange -> {{-4, 4}, {-4, 4}}, PlotStyle -> Thick],
{u, {-3.5, -3.5}, {3.5, 3.5}},
ControlType -> Locator]
I now want to be able to create (and destroy) locators there. So I
tried option LocatorAutoCreate:
Manipulate[{x0, v0} = u;
ParametricPlot[soln[t, x0, v0], {t, 0, 4 \[Pi]},
PlotRange -> {{-4, 4}, {-4, 4}}, PlotStyle -> Thick],
{{u, {-3.5, -3.5}, {3.5, 3.5}},
Locator, LocatorAutoCreate -> True}]
But this does not work: I still get only one locator and corresponding
one curve shown after Alt-Click somewhere.
[Note that changing the manipulate parameter specification to the form
shown on page ref/LocatorAutoCreate...
{{u, {{-3.5, -3.5}, {3.5, 3.5}}}, Locator, LocatorAutoCreate -> True}
... gives completely spurious results.]
Is it possible to fix this and yet still do it within a Manipulate. For
good reasons I do NOT want to totally "roll my own" using DynamicModule,
etc.
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