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euruswind
euruswind

Hi Group,

I recently started using Bokeh and it is delivering really impressive visualization of my data. There is a feature I don’t know whether it is possible to implement with Bokeh. What I would like to implement is that on scatter plot when I hover over any data points I want to show some extra points. I know hovertools can show nice datatips - is it possible to change the behavior to display other objects? Thanks a bunch in advance!!

Jian

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Bryan
Bryan

Do you mean you want the glyph appearance to change on hover? This is not currently possible but should actually be a simple feature to add. Here is a GH issue you can track to follow progress on this feature or to contribute to the discussion:

  GlyphRenderer should have hover_glyph property · Issue #1476 · bokeh/bokeh · GitHub

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Nov 28, 2014, at 1:37 PM, euruswind@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Group,

I recently started using Bokeh and it is delivering really impressive visualization of my data. There is a feature I don't know whether it is possible to implement with Bokeh. What I would like to implement is that on scatter plot when I hover over any data points I want to show some extra points. I know hovertools can show nice datatips - is it possible to change the behavior to display other objects? Thanks a bunch in advance!!

Jian

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