Barcharts small bar mouseover problem

[bobular]

Loosely related to VEuPathDB/web-eda#1259

Just a draft at the moment, but we could merge, even if we don't find a solution.

I added a story to demonstrate.

I googled and tried a few things (including very large border widths) but nothing worked 😭

I commented on plotly/plotly.R#2114

[moontrip]

tested the story and confirmed the example that does not work for mouseover for small values

[bobular]

tested the story and confirmed the example that does not work for mouseover for small values

Thanks - I'll leave it here for a week or so and probably merge after next week's Wednesday meeting (and some discussion)

[moontrip]

@bobular I think that if we adjust max range at dependent (y) axis range control, saying 100, then perhaps mouseover would work as small value bars are scaled up accordingly?

[bobular]

@bobular I think that if we adjust max range at dependent (y) axis range control, saying 100, then perhaps mouseover would work as small value bars are scaled up accordingly?

Yes, that would make the bar bigger and clickable. It's a workaround, just like switching on log scale.

Another possibility is to add a toggle switch to turn on/off displaying the values on the barchart. Both Barplot and Histogram have a showValues prop.

I just hacked this in browser dev tools (set showValues: true) and it looks quite good

Not sure where this toggle switch would live? y-axis section?

[bobular]

This needs some UX input I think. @danicahelb @SheenaTomko @nkittur-uga

[moontrip]

@bobular I think that if we adjust max range at dependent (y) axis range control, saying 100, then perhaps mouseover would work as small value bars are scaled up accordingly?

Yes, that would make the bar bigger and clickable. It's a workaround, just like switching on log scale.

Another possibility is to add a toggle switch to turn on/off displaying the values on the barchart. Both Barplot and Histogram have a showValues prop.

I just hacked this in browser dev tools (set showValues: true) and it looks quite good

@bobular I like the idea to show values but isn't it troubled with overlay variable? (stacked in histogram and grouped in barplot) Perhaps showValues: false for overlay variable? 😃

[bobular]

It's a bit of a mess/misleading with an overlay, yes

[danicahelb]

@bobular I don't think i like the toggle to display values. we will likely add a toggle to add counts in each population and all of these different numbers will get very confusing!