Scattergl Hover:closest and Click only active with first-plotted trace
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Problem:
Scattergl hover and click functionalities are only available for the first-plotted trace if one has multiple traces but does not matter when using Scatter.
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I am using plotly 4.4.1 and was trying out the network demo on the plotly website. Since I have lots of nodes and edges in my graph, I tried using Scattergl instead.
This works and speeds up the plotting but disables the tool tips on hover on hovermode="closest". The hover does however still find the points, which we can see when we press "Toggle Spike Lines", which snap onto the point our cursor is closest to.
Clicking on the "compare data on hover" button let's tool tips appear but this is a very erratic experience when we have a lot of points close to each other.
EDIT: I have produced a smaller code example in the next comment on this thread.
Not sure if this was addressed in https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/4323 which should be part of my version (4.4.1).
Below is the network demo with Scatter substituted for Scattergl, which can reproduce my issue:
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import networkx as nx
G = nx.random_geometric_graph(200, 0.125)
edge_x = []
edge_y = []
for edge in G.edges():
x0, y0 = G.nodes[edge[0]]['pos']
x1, y1 = G.nodes[edge[1]]['pos']
edge_x.append(x0)
edge_x.append(x1)
edge_x.append(None)
edge_y.append(y0)
edge_y.append(y1)
edge_y.append(None)
edge_trace = go.Scattergl(
x=edge_x, y=edge_y,
line=dict(width=0.5, color='#888'),
hoverinfo='none',
mode='lines')
node_x = []
node_y = []
for node in G.nodes():
x, y = G.nodes[node]['pos']
node_x.append(x)
node_y.append(y)
node_trace = go.Scattergl(
x=node_x, y=node_y,
mode='markers',
hoverinfo='text',
marker=dict(
showscale=True,
# colorscale options
#'Greys' | 'YlGnBu' | 'Greens' | 'YlOrRd' | 'Bluered' | 'RdBu' |
#'Reds' | 'Blues' | 'Picnic' | 'Rainbow' | 'Portland' | 'Jet' |
#'Hot' | 'Blackbody' | 'Earth' | 'Electric' | 'Viridis' |
colorscale='YlGnBu',
reversescale=True,
color=[],
size=10,
colorbar=dict(
thickness=15,
title='Node Connections',
xanchor='left',
titleside='right'
),
line_width=2))
node_adjacencies = []
node_text = []
for node, adjacencies in enumerate(G.adjacency()):
node_adjacencies.append(len(adjacencies[1]))
node_text.append('# of connections: '+str(len(adjacencies[1])))
node_trace.marker.color = node_adjacencies
node_trace.text = node_text
fig = go.Figure(data=[edge_trace, node_trace],
layout=go.Layout(
title='<br>Network graph made with Python',
titlefont_size=16,
showlegend=False,
hovermode='closest',
margin=dict(b=20,l=5,r=5,t=40),
annotations=[ dict(
text="Python code: <a href='https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/network-graphs/'> https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/network-graphs/</a>",
showarrow=False,
xref="paper", yref="paper",
x=0.005, y=-0.002 ) ],
xaxis=dict(showgrid=False, zeroline=False, showticklabels=False),
yaxis=dict(showgrid=False, zeroline=False, showticklabels=False))
)
fig.show()
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Research direction
Start by running the supplied Python network-graph example with multiple Scattergl traces and hovermode="closest". Inspect the Scattergl hover and click entry points, including the plotly.js PR 4323 context, and compare them with Scatter behavior. Done means hover tooltips and clicks work for the appropriate trace rather than only the first-plotted trace.
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