Is it possible to make the 'box_select' tool the default (initially selected) tool?

I am working with a bokeh-server app derived from the stock_app example, and the most used pan/drag functionality is the ‘box_select’ tool.
I would like to make this the default tool without having to remove all other pan/drag tools.

Is this possible?

Not currently. Tools are grouped by gesture, then sorted by their "default_order", and then the first tool of each gesture is activated:

  https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/msater/bokehjs/src/coffee/common/tool_manager.coffee#L97

Unfortunately "default_order" is not exposed on the python side. If it were, you could change the default_order of the "box_select" tool so that it came first in the list and was thus activated by default. Fortunately this would be a trivia change to make. Can you make a GH issue for this feature?

  Issues · bokeh/bokeh · GitHub

If you are feeling up to it, I would be happy to help you with a Pull Request to implement this change. Otherwise, we will schedule it for an upcoming release as soon as we can.

Note: a fuller solution would let you specify the default tool independently from the order in the toolbar, but this would take more effort to accomplish.

Bryan

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On Jul 30, 2015, at 7:57 PM, forest bremer <[email protected]> wrote:

I am working with a bokeh-server app derived from the stock_app example, and the most used pan/drag functionality is the 'box_select' tool.
I would like to make this the default tool without having to remove all other pan/drag tools.

Is this possible?

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Has anything changed regarding this “issue” in the past year since this was originally posted?

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On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 9:14:56 PM UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven wrote:

Not currently. Tools are grouped by gesture, then sorted by their “default_order”, and then the first tool of each gesture is activated:

    [https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/msater/bokehjs/src/coffee/common/tool_manager.coffee#L97](https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/msater/bokehjs/src/coffee/common/tool_manager.coffee#L97)

Unfortunately “default_order” is not exposed on the python side. If it were, you could change the default_order of the “box_select” tool so that it came first in the list and was thus activated by default. Fortunately this would be a trivia change to make. Can you make a GH issue for this feature?

    [https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues](https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues)

If you are feeling up to it, I would be happy to help you with a Pull Request to implement this change. Otherwise, we will schedule it for an upcoming release as soon as we can.

Note: a fuller solution would let you specify the default tool independently from the order in the toolbar, but this would take more effort to accomplish.

Bryan

On Jul 30, 2015, at 7:57 PM, forest bremer [email protected] wrote:

I am working with a bokeh-server app derived from the stock_app example, and the most used pan/drag functionality is the ‘box_select’ tool.

I would like to make this the default tool without having to remove all other pan/drag tools.

Is this possible?


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Hi, yes this is in the docs:
  
  http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/tools.html#setting-the-active-tools

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:

Has anything changed regarding this "issue" in the past year since this was originally posted?

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 9:14:56 PM UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven wrote:
Not currently. Tools are grouped by gesture, then sorted by their "default_order", and then the first tool of each gesture is activated:

        https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/msater/bokehjs/src/coffee/common/tool_manager.coffee#L97

Unfortunately "default_order" is not exposed on the python side. If it were, you could change the default_order of the "box_select" tool so that it came first in the list and was thus activated by default. Fortunately this would be a trivia change to make. Can you make a GH issue for this feature?

        Issues · bokeh/bokeh · GitHub

If you are feeling up to it, I would be happy to help you with a Pull Request to implement this change. Otherwise, we will schedule it for an upcoming release as soon as we can.

Note: a fuller solution would let you specify the default tool independently from the order in the toolbar, but this would take more effort to accomplish.

Bryan

> On Jul 30, 2015, at 7:57 PM, forest bremer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am working with a bokeh-server app derived from the stock_app example, and the most used pan/drag functionality is the 'box_select' tool.
> I would like to make this the default tool without having to remove all other pan/drag tools.
>
> Is this possible?
>
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