Re: Inserting a position-limited Locator inside a Manipulate
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- Subject: [mg107246] Re: Inserting a position-limited Locator inside a Manipulate
- From: Fred Klingener <gigabitbucket at BrockEng.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 03:26:37 -0500 (EST)
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Adrian, The best I've been able to do on this is an embedded DynamicModule inside the Manipulate. Here's an implementation in a Demonstration: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TransformationsOfComplexDualAndHyperbolicNumbers/ Doing it this way (leaving the Locator as a Manipulate variable) permits Autorun to exercise it. Hth, Fred Klingener On Feb 4, 6:24 am, adrian skaai <sk... at earthlink.net> wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, i apologize if the question i post has been posted > before... I tried to find an applicable message but could not. of > course my own lack of experience in anything but basic mathematica > functions doesn't help. > > My original reason for this project was that i am learning to graph the > behavior of acid-base reactions in human blood. To do this, we are > given titration plots where we plot a solution with only a strong acid > and another one with a strong acid and a weak acid. To those of you not > familiar with such plots, they are useful in determining the ion > difference (or equivalence point) for a solution, which can tell you > much about its acid dissociation constant and other important traits. > If I am successful in implementing this, i would move on to Log-Log > plots of similar behavior, but that would not be much harder if i solve > this problem. > > =========The Problem========= > > The plot i wanted to make in Mathematica 7 was where i could compare > both behaviors on the same graph (titration plots), so I began by > creating a basic Manipulate Sin(x) plot just to get an idea of the > concept as once i get that, plugging in my functions should be child's > play. There are 3 things i want in the final product: > > 1. both plots should be modifiable (which i can do) > 2. the main plot can persist, but additional ones (some graphs will > have up to 4 plots) should be able to be removed with a checkbox (i did > this with a bit of success) > 3. each plot should have a locator that is constrained to follow the > plot and return the values for the plot (this was the kicker for me) > > of the three goals, i was able to do #1 & #2 two plots, though i'm not > sure if i can generalize to three or four plots as i want. The hardest > for me has been to integrage locators into the plots, but this is also > the most important. why? because many times the interesting behavior of > these plots is in areas that are hard to read. I have made Manipulate > plots before that zoom in, so that helps, but perhaps im still in love > with the old TI 89 ability to trace a plot (sorry). > > anyways, here is one attempt i made: > (*this plot was my first successful combination of two functions. i > want to keep my functions malleable so that i can play with them or > modify them as i need. i now need to insert a locator that will trace > them*) f[a_, x_] := Plot[{Sin[3 a x] + x}, {x, -5, 7}]; g[a_, x_, b_] > := Plot[Cos[a x] b, {x, -5, 7}]; DynamicModule[{x = x}, Manipulate[Sh= ow[{f[a, x], g[a, x, b]}], {a, -4, 4}, {b, {0, 1}, ControlType -> > Checkbox}]] > > =======Extra Info========== > > I tried many times to insert a locator, but failed, the following are > two examples of my failed attempts: > (*I had made a few attempts at sticking a LocatorPane in the equations > but sticking it inside a DynamicModule and sticking everything else > in it failed, sticking it inside Manipulate failed, part of the > failure was the fact my Locator required an argument from the > function, but there is no clear way to give it an argument, so im > going to begin from scratch on inventing a single function where i > can stick a locator and get its info on position and also limit its > movement*)Manipulate[Plot[Sin[x], {x, -2 , 2 }], {{p, {0, 0}}, > Locator}] > > this second attempt was where i was able to update its position... i > think in an earlier attempt it actually worked, but didn't now that i > tried to move it again: > (*this was my first successful integration of the Locator in a plot > along with updating the position of the locator via the PlotLabel. > its not the best solution because you usually want a title for the > plot label, but this is a start*)DynamicModule[{p = {2, 1}}, > Manipulate[Plot[{2 Sin[x]}, {x, -2 , 2 }, PlotLabel -> Dynamic[p], > Epilog -> Locator[Dynamic[p, (p = Normalize[#]) &]]]]] > > sorry for so much info, but i thought it might help outline my > limitations. I would truly appreciate any help in this issue... > particularly with #3 > > -- > adrian skaai > email: sk... at earthlink.net > I always welcome email at my address if you are a friend and not a > spammer. With that in mind, the first time you email me, you will be > met by my spam filter. Don't let it put you off, a quick response to my > spam filter will get your message through!