Get current active / clicked shape from plotly figure
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As discussed in https://community.plotly.com/t/how-to-get-current-active-shape/42235 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76163350/shape-click-eventactive-shape-index-how-to-retrieve-the-index-of-a-drawn-sha, it would be a great feature to get the current active / clicked shape from a plotly figure via a callback in dash.
Describe the solution you'd like
A simple 'active_shape' or similar property from figure to use in callbacks.
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Research direction
Start by reading the linked Plotly community and Stack Overflow discussions, then trace how Plotly figures and Dash callbacks currently expose interaction state. The issue names no files or tests; done means a callback-accessible active_shape or equivalent identifies the clicked or drawn shape.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- plotly, python, react
- Domain
- data-visualization, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100