Box points hover & select

src/components/fx/helpers.js

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ exports.p2c = function p2c(axArray, v) {
 };
 
 exports.getDistanceFunction = function getDistanceFunction(mode, dx, dy, dxy) {
-    if(mode === 'closest') return dxy || quadrature(dx, dy);
+    if(mode === 'closest') return dxy || exports.quadrature(dx, dy);
     return mode === 'x' ? dx : dy;
 };
 
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ exports.inbox = function inbox(v0, v1) {
     return Infinity;
 };
 
-function quadrature(dx, dy) {
+exports.quadrature = function quadrature(dx, dy) {
     return function(di) {
         var x = dx(di),
             y = dy(di);
         return Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y);
     };
-}
+};
 
 /** Appends values inside array attributes corresponding to given point number
  *

src/components/fx/hover.js

@@ -1065,36 +1065,14 @@ function cleanPoint(d, hovermode) {
 
     // and convert the x and y label values into objects
     // formatted as text, with font info
-    var logOffScale;
     if(d.xLabelVal !== undefined) {
-        logOffScale = (d.xa.type === 'log' && d.xLabelVal <= 0);
-        var xLabelObj = Axes.tickText(d.xa,
-                d.xa.c2l(logOffScale ? -d.xLabelVal : d.xLabelVal), 'hover');
-        if(logOffScale) {
-            if(d.xLabelVal === 0) d.xLabel = '0';
-            else d.xLabel = '-' + xLabelObj.text;
-        }
-        // TODO: should we do something special if the axis calendar and
-        // the data calendar are different? Somehow display both dates with
-        // their system names? Right now it will just display in the axis calendar
-        // but users could add the other one as text.
-        else d.xLabel = xLabelObj.text;
+        d.xLabel = ('xLabel' in d) ? d.xLabel : Axes.hoverLabelText(d.xa, d.xLabelVal);
         d.xVal = d.xa.c2d(d.xLabelVal);
     }
-
     if(d.yLabelVal !== undefined) {
-        logOffScale = (d.ya.type === 'log' && d.yLabelVal <= 0);
-        var yLabelObj = Axes.tickText(d.ya,
-                d.ya.c2l(logOffScale ? -d.yLabelVal : d.yLabelVal), 'hover');
-        if(logOffScale) {
-            if(d.yLabelVal === 0) d.yLabel = '0';
-            else d.yLabel = '-' + yLabelObj.text;
-        }
-        // TODO: see above TODO
-        else d.yLabel = yLabelObj.text;
+        d.yLabel = ('yLabel' in d) ? d.yLabel : Axes.hoverLabelText(d.ya, d.yLabelVal);
         d.yVal = d.ya.c2d(d.yLabelVal);
     }
-
     if(d.zLabelVal !== undefined) d.zLabel = String(d.zLabelVal);
 
     // for box means and error bars, add the range to the label

src/components/fx/index.js

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ module.exports = {
     getDistanceFunction: helpers.getDistanceFunction,
     getClosest: helpers.getClosest,
     inbox: helpers.inbox,
+    quadrature: helpers.quadrature,
     appendArrayPointValue: helpers.appendArrayPointValue,
 
     castHoverOption: castHoverOption,

src/components/modebar/manage.js

@@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ function isSelectable(fullData) {
             if(scatterSubTypes.hasMarkers(trace) || scatterSubTypes.hasText(trace)) {
                 selectable = true;
             }
+        } else if(Registry.traceIs(trace, 'box')) {
+            if(trace.boxpoints === 'all') {
+                selectable = true;
+            }
         }
         // assume that in general if the trace module has selectPoints,
         // then it's selectable. Scatter is an exception to this because it must

src/plots/cartesian/axes.js

@@ -1216,6 +1216,21 @@ axes.tickText = function(ax, x, hover) {
     return out;
 };
 
+axes.hoverLabelText = function(ax, val) {
+    var logOffScale = (ax.type === 'log' && val <= 0);
+    var tx = axes.tickText(ax, ax.c2l(logOffScale ? -val : val), 'hover').text;
+
+    if(logOffScale) {
+        return val === 0 ? '0' : '-' + tx;
+    }
+
+    // TODO: should we do something special if the axis calendar and
+    // the data calendar are different? Somehow display both dates with
+    // their system names? Right now it will just display in the axis calendar
+    // but users could add the other one as text.
+    return tx;
+};
+
 function tickTextObj(ax, x, text) {
     var tf = ax.tickfont || {};
 

src/traces/bar/select.js

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ var DESELECTDIM = require('../../constants/interactions').DESELECTDIM;
 
 module.exports = function selectPoints(searchInfo, polygon) {
     var cd = searchInfo.cd;
+    var xa = searchInfo.xaxis;
+    var ya = searchInfo.yaxis;
     var selection = [];
     var trace = cd[0].trace;
     var node3 = cd[0].node3;
@@ -31,8 +33,8 @@ module.exports = function selectPoints(searchInfo, polygon) {
             if(polygon.contains(di.ct)) {
                 selection.push({
                     pointNumber: i,
-                    x: di.x,
-                    y: di.y
+                    x: xa.c2d(di.x),
+                    y: ya.c2d(di.y)
                 });
                 di.dim = 0;
             } else {

src/traces/box/attributes.js

@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ var scatterAttrs = require('../scatter/attributes');
 var colorAttrs = require('../../components/color/attributes');
 var extendFlat = require('../../lib/extend').extendFlat;
 
-var scatterMarkerAttrs = scatterAttrs.marker,
-    scatterMarkerLineAttrs = scatterMarkerAttrs.line;
-
+var scatterMarkerAttrs = scatterAttrs.marker;
+var scatterMarkerLineAttrs = scatterMarkerAttrs.line;
 
 module.exports = {
     y: {
@@ -63,6 +62,16 @@ module.exports = {
             'missing and the position axis is categorical'
         ].join(' ')
     },
+    text: extendFlat({}, scatterAttrs.text, {
+        description: [
+            'Sets the text elements associated with each sample value.',
+            'If a single string, the same string appears over',
+            'all the data points.',
+            'If an array of string, the items are mapped in order to the',
+            'this trace\'s (x,y) coordinates.',
+            'To be seen, trace `hoverinfo` must contain a *text* flag.'
+        ].join(' ')
+    }),
     whiskerwidth: {
         valType: 'number',
         min: 0,
@@ -159,9 +168,11 @@ module.exports = {
             {arrayOk: false, editType: 'style'}),
         line: {
             color: extendFlat({}, scatterMarkerLineAttrs.color,
-                {arrayOk: false, dflt: colorAttrs.defaultLine, editType: 'style'}),
+                {arrayOk: false, dflt: colorAttrs.defaultLine, editType: 'style'}
+            ),
             width: extendFlat({}, scatterMarkerLineAttrs.width,
-                {arrayOk: false, dflt: 0, editType: 'style'}),
+                {arrayOk: false, dflt: 0, editType: 'style'}
+            ),
             outliercolor: {
                 valType: 'color',
                 role: 'style',
@@ -202,5 +213,16 @@ module.exports = {
         },
         editType: 'plot'
     },
-    fillcolor: scatterAttrs.fillcolor
+    fillcolor: scatterAttrs.fillcolor,
+    hoveron: {
+        valType: 'flaglist',
+        flags: ['boxes', 'points'],
+        dflt: 'boxes+points',
+        role: 'info',
+        editType: 'style',
+        description: [
+            'Do the hover effects highlight individual boxes ',
+            'or sample points or both?'
+        ].join(' ')
+    }
 };