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Can the Crosshair tool trigger hover points?

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Bryan
Bryan

The crosshair tool and hover tools are separate, and can be used independently of one another, or in combination. The Crosshair tool just draws a crosshair, and nothing else. The hover tool shows the tooltips, and can definitely work on multiple lines. See, e.g.,

https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/examples/charts/file/hover_span.py

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On Aug 27, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Ed Oxenham <ed.oxenham@googlemail.com> wrote:

I was wondering whether anyone can tell me whether the crosshair tool is capable of triggering hover overs on multiple lines as in the highcharts example at
Highcharts Demos and Examples | Highcharts .

regards

Ed

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Brian thanks that example gave me everything I needed.

I thought I had looked at all the examples but I definitely missed that one.

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On 27 Aug 2015 09:52, “Bryan Van de Ven” bryan@bokeh.org wrote:

The crosshair tool and hover tools are separate, and can be used independently of one another, or in combination. The Crosshair tool just draws a crosshair, and nothing else. The hover tool shows the tooltips, and can definitely work on multiple lines. See, e.g.,

https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/examples/charts/file/hover_span.py

Bryan

On Aug 27, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Ed Oxenham ed.oxenham@googlemail.com wrote:

I was wondering whether anyone can tell me whether the crosshair tool is capable of triggering hover overs on multiple lines as in the highcharts example at

http://www.highcharts.com/demo/line-ajax .

regards

Ed

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FANG_Colin
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Ed I agree with you the highcharts crosshair tool is a bit more useful.

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On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 12:53:43 PM UTC+1, Ed Oxenham wrote:

Brian thanks that example gave me everything I needed.

I thought I had looked at all the examples but I definitely missed that one.

On 27 Aug 2015 09:52, “Bryan Van de Ven” bry...@continuum.io wrote:

The crosshair tool and hover tools are separate, and can be used independently of one another, or in combination. The Crosshair tool just draws a crosshair, and nothing else. The hover tool shows the tooltips, and can definitely work on multiple lines. See, e.g.,

https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/examples/charts/file/hover_span.py

Bryan

On Aug 27, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Ed Oxenham ed.ox...@googlemail.com wrote:

I was wondering whether anyone can tell me whether the crosshair tool is capable of triggering hover overs on multiple lines as in the highcharts example at

http://www.highcharts.com/demo/line-ajax .

regards

Ed

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Bryan
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A (welcome) constructive criticism would include a comparison, or concrete suggestions for improvements that could be made.

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On Aug 27, 2015, at 2:30 PM, FANG Colin <colinfang@gmail.com> wrote:

Ed I agree with you the highcharts crosshair tool is a bit more useful.

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