Bar chart tooltips overlap with bars for high values
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Description
When using BarChart, tooltips for high-value bars overlap with the bars themselves, making them difficult to read.
**Steps to reproduce:**
1. Create a BarChart with some high value data points
2. Show tooltips on all bar rods using `showingTooltipIndicators: [0]` in `BarChartGroupData`
3. Notice tooltips appear on top of the bars, creating visual overlap
**Expected behavior:**
Tooltips should be positioned in a way that's clearly readable and doesn't overlap with the bar content
**Current behavior:**
Tooltips appear directly on top of tall bars, creating visual clutter and reducing readability
**Versions**
- Flutter version: 3.24.4
- fl_chart version: 0.69.0
**Screenshots:**


Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with BarChart and showingTooltipIndicators: [0] in BarChartGroupData using high-value data points. Inspect the BarChart tooltip positioning path and verify the result on Flutter 3.24.4. Done means tooltips remain clearly readable without overlapping tall bars.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- dart, flutter
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100