mapbox / mapbox/mapbox-gl-leaflet

In interactive mode, Mapbox fires spurious mousemove events on drag/pan

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Description

If you enable interactive mode (by setting the interactive option to true), Mapbox's mousemove event will fire while panning the map, with event lngLat locations that don't reflect the actual cursor position. This does not happen when using Leaflet events, though those apply to the entire map and are thus not well suited to layer-specific functionality.

Currently, to work around this, I set a flag when Leaflet fires a movestart event (and unset it on moveend), and ignore all Mapbox events while the flag is set. Ideally the library would handle this properly to ensure that spurious events are not fired...

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Research direction

Start by tracing interactive mode and the Mapbox mousemove handling, then compare it with the Leaflet movestart and moveend events described in the report. Reproduce a drag or pan with interactive enabled and verify that layer-specific mousemove events are not emitted with cursor locations that do not match the actual cursor.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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