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Re: Making a palette to control dynamic variables?
Posted:
Jan 14, 2013 12:00 AM
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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@wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.
On Jan 11, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Brentt <brenttnewman@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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