Re: Making a palette to control dynamic variables?
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- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:01:10 -0500 (EST)
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Paste the following into the help viewer search field:
tutorial/AdvancedDynamicFunctionality
and scroll down to the section on DynamicModule wormholes (it's at the very end of the document).
John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.
On Jan 11, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Brentt <brenttnewman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to make a control interface for a graphic be in a separate
> window. I want those variables to dynamically interact with variables in
> the original session.
>
> I thought maybe opening up the palette within a dynamic module might work,
> but no such luck. Something is going on with the way variables are dealt
> with across notebooks I suppose, and I've been trying to find a workaround.
> I was thinking perhaps using NotebookGet and NotebookWrite, but, as far as
> I can tell, I then have to print those in a cell in the Notebook to fetch
> the variables, which seems undesirable performance wise (also perhaps using
> CellPrint prints the dynamic variable in the parent notebook, but I'm not
> sure how to turn that into a variable which I can use.)
>
> Is there a way to do this nicely?
>
> This was my attempt at creating a graphic with a locator in a palette with
> the values to be used in furthur computations in the "parent" notebook.
>
> DynamicModule[{x = {0, 0}},
> nb = DocumentNotebook[{
> Graphics[{Locator[Dynamic[x]]}, PlotRange -> ( {
> {-1, 1},
> {-1, 1}
> } ), Frame -> True]
> }];
> CreatePalette[nb];
>
> Dynamic@x
> ]
>
>
> But that x doesn't get the dynamically updated locator values from the
> palette.
>
>
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- From: Brentt <brenttnewman@gmail.com>
- Making a palette to control dynamic variables?