Exposing more events

[aderidder]

Hi,

From a recent community post, I learned that the January release will probably support a brushing feature, which is great.
I think it would be really useful if you'd expose more events, such as double-click, as this would allow us to better control the desired functionality.

Thanks,
Sander

[etpinard]

@aderidder thanks again for the suggestion.

Adding more events is definitely on our roadmap. The only things blocking us at the moment, is the fact that each plotly.js plot type (cartesian, geo, gl, ...) has its own event emitting internals.

Some work should be dedicated to generalizing our internals before exposing more events.

[etpinard]

@ifll please comment here if you any suggestions about other potential plotly.js events. Thank you.

[ifll]

What about having the "plotly_zommin", "plotly_zoomout", "plotly_pan", etc... events?

This would help a lot to control the user interaction with the plot

Thank you!

[mmek123]

when graph is in edit mode would like to get events like
title Edited, X/Y axis edited , annotations edited

also would highly benefit from having a event when you hover over the extrapolated graph points.. currently its only on data points..

thanks..

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:25 AM, ifll notifications@github.com wrote:

What about having the "plotly_zommin", "plotly_zoomout", "plotly_pan",
etc... events?

This would help a lot to control the user interaction with the plot

Thank you!

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[czellweg]

I second @mmek123 comments: we currently want to reload data based on zoom-events but not when relayouting. At the moment, we can't distinguish whether the relayout was caused by an actual zoom-in or simply the user changing the size of the browser window (which will cause a relayout as the plot is responsive).

We'd love to see the following:

• plotly_zoomin, plotly_zoomout, plotly_pan, plotly_scale_x, plotly_scale_y

It would be great if all the available data of the current view port to the plot is made available such as start-x, end-x, start-y, end-y etc.

Can you make a statement about a possible roadmap for this?

[etpinard]

From @mdfederici in #722 with PoC in #721

It is desirable for my container to receive notifications when a user has edited an annotation in an editable graph by moving, rotating or changing length [using a new plotly_editannotation event]

Response in #722 (comment)

[etpinard]

From @paneyi in #788

It would be great to expose the original event along with the data in Plotly events.
One practical example would be to know if the user was pressing any special keys when clicking and act accordingly, like add to a selection.

var acummulate = originalEvent.altKey || originalEvent.ctrlKey || originalEvent.shiftKey || originalEvent.metaKey