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From: Christoph Lhotka on 27 Mar 2010 06:09
Hello!

I prefer to use my Playstation controller (this is ment seriously) to zoom
in/ zoom out/ etc..

ControllerManipulate

(look it up on the documentation center)

All the best (and enjoy),

Christoph


On Fr, 26.03.2010, 11:37, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> In another system (starts with the letter M and ends with the letter B),
> one
> can easily zoom within a plot using the mouse, by making a rectangular
> shape
> to select the zoom region, and the plot is then replotted to fit into the
> new area. Then using the mouse, one can unzoom back to the original scale.
> These functionalities are build into each figure which is generated, using
> a
> build-in menu attached to each figure window.
>
> Now, I do zooming, by having sliders which I moves around, and then I
> change
> the axis plot range accordingly, then replot. But this is not as nice.
>
>
> I looked at few other options, but all seem convoluted to me. For example,
> I
> thought of the following:
>
> Try to use LocatorPane with 2 locators, one for each opposite corner of
> the
> rectangular, and user would adjust these, and then using Dynamics, I can
> read the coordinates of each corner and this gives the new plot range. But
> I
> think need to superimpose this LocatorPane on top of the plot itself to
> make
> it user friendly, and worry about mapping coordinates and all that, and it
> is starting to get too complicated.
>
> Or may be use Slider2D, one for one corner and another for the second
> corner.
>
> The point is, I think Mathematica should have a build-in support for these
> sorts of things, the user do not need to code this each time from scratch.
> once a plot is made, there should be an automatic way for someone, using
> the
> mouse to select an area on the plot. May be add another menu, like the
> menu
> that comes up when one right-click on a plot, next to the graphic
> inspector,
> to do this.
>
> May be for version 8? This is one feature I always wondered why
> Mathematica,
> with all its graphics functions, does not support for out-of-the-box.
>
> --Nasser
>
>
>
>
>


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