Hover and TLineSeries

[arekay]

I get strange hovering behavior with a simple TLineSeries in VCL. In this example, my cursor is over the third point in the line, which is highlighted correctly, but only the first segment (connection between two points) is highlighted. The highlighted segment is always one behind the point being hovered on; if I highlight the fourth (rightmost) point, the second segment is highlighted. Is this supposed to happen? I would like to turn off the segment highlighting while keeping the point highlighting, but I cannot find a way to do it.

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[Yeray]

Hello,

I get strange hovering behavior with a simple TLineSeries in VCL. In this example, my cursor is over the third point in the line, which is highlighted correctly, but only the first segment (connection between two points) is highlighted. The highlighted segment is always one behind the point being hovered on; if I highlight the fourth (rightmost) point, the second segment is highlighted. Is this supposed to happen?

It seems to work fine for me with TeeChart Pro v2017.22. What version are you using?
Could you please arrange a simple example project we can run as-is to reproduce the problem here?

I would like to turn off the segment highlighting while keeping the point highlighting, but I cannot find a way to do it.

I'm afraid this shoudl be done manually. Ie:

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var ClickedIndex: Integer;

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  Series1.Selected.Hover.Visible:=False;

  Series1.OnGetPointerStyle:=Series1GetPointerStyle;
end;

procedure TForm1.Chart1MouseMove(Sender: TObject; Shift: TShiftState; X,
  Y: Integer);
var i, ValueIndex : Integer;
    tmpP          : TPoint;
begin
  ClickedIndex:=Series1.Clicked(X, Y);

  tmpP:=Point(Series1.CalcXPos(ClickedIndex), Series1.CalcYPos(ClickedIndex));
  if Series1.Pointer.Clicked(Series1.Pointer.Style, tmpP, Chart1.GetCursorPos.X, Chart1.GetCursorPos.Y) then
     Chart1.Draw
  else
     ClickedIndex:=-1;
end;

function TForm1.Series1GetPointerStyle(Sender: TChartSeries;
  ValueIndex: Integer): TSeriesPointerStyle;
begin
  with (Sender as TLineSeries).Pointer do
  begin
    result:=Style;
    Brush.Color:=Sender.Color;
    Pen.Color:=clBlack;

    if (ValueIndex<>-1) and (ClickedIndex=ValueIndex) then
       Pen.Color:=clRed;
  end;
end;

[arekay]

Thank you for your reply. I am using v2017.22.170619, in C++ Builder 10.2.1.

It looks like the problem arises because the bottom axis is inverted. The code below shows this in 2D; 3D behavior is even more bizarre-looking. It appears that nobody implemented counting backwards for hovering.

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TForm1::TForm1(TComponent* Owner)
	: TForm(Owner)
{
	Chart1->BottomAxis->Inverted = true;
	Chart1->View3D = false;

	Series1->AddXY(0.,0.,"",clTeeColor);
	Series1->AddXY(1.,1.,"",clTeeColor);
	Series1->AddXY(3.,2.,"",clTeeColor);
	Series1->AddXY(4.,1.,"",clTeeColor);
	Series1->AddXY(6.,4.,"",clTeeColor);
}

[Yeray]

Hello,

I've added it to the public tracker, and I've already fixed it for the next maintenance release:
http://bugs.teechart.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1935

[arekay]

Thanks!

Another slightly odd thing that this test showed me is that in 3D mode the line segment between two points can be hovered over, but in 2D mode only the points can be hovered over. Is this intentional? Can line hovering be added for 2D, or made optional?

Actually, an idea that would make hovering better for my application, and maybe some others', would be to give the option of highlighting the line segments on both sides of the point being hovered over, rather than only the forward one (because clicking on and dragging that point will alter both line segments). If it would be possible to include an option like that in the future, it would be nice.

[Yeray]

Another slightly odd thing that this test showed me is that in 3D mode the line segment between two points can be hovered over, but in 2D mode only the points can be hovered over. Is this intentional? Can line hovering be added for 2D, or made optional?

I haven't been able to reproduce that. It worked fine for me both in 2D and in 3D.

Actually, an idea that would make hovering better for my application, and maybe some others', would be to give the option of highlighting the line segments on both sides of the point being hovered over, rather than only the forward one (because clicking on and dragging that point will alter both line segments). If it would be possible to include an option like that in the future, it would be nice.

In the modifications I did for #1935 I removed the line segment highlighting when hovering a pointer.
However, the highlighting both line segments when hovering a pointer, as you request, is also an option to consider.
An idea would be to add a property (ie Pointer.HoverStyle) to select what line segments to show when hovering a pointer. I've added it to the public tracker:
http://bugs.teechart.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1936

[Yeray]

However, the highlighting both line segments when hovering a pointer, as you request, is also an option to consider.
An idea would be to add a property (ie Pointer.HoverStyle) to select what line segments to show when hovering a pointer. I've added it to the public tracker:
http://bugs.teechart.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1936

Please check the attached project to test the implementation of this new feature:

Project1.zip

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Your feedback will be very welcome.

[Yeray]

As you can read in #1936 we:

Changed Pointer.HoverStyle property to HoverElement, a property for all the series, at TChartSeries. It's a set, with the possible values:

- hePrevious: Disabled by default. When active, highlights the element previous to the element below the mouse.

- heNext: Disabled by default. When active, highlight the element next to the element below the mouse.

- heCurrent: Enabled by default. When active, highlights the element below the mouse.

- heJoin: Disabled by default. When active, Pointer and Mark are treated as the same hover element.

Elements are: line segments, area segments, pointers, or pointer+mark.

See the project attached to test all the new properties

[arekay]

Thank you for your help on this last year, and the enhancement. However, it appears that hovering is no longer enabled on TArrowSeries. It was working last year; can be it put back in?

[Yeray]

Hello,

Indeed, it seems that the fix for #1936 broke the hover for the TArrowSeries. I've now fixed it at #2078.
Thanks for reporting it.

[konzeptum_sd]

Hello,

I'd like to revive this thread as it seems to me that TGanttSeries is also affected.
The hover/highlighting I'm used to from an earlier version is gone after the upgrade to TeeChart Pro v2019.27.190530 (32bit VCL).

I would appreciate you checking into it.
Thank you in advance.

All the best,
Stefan

[Yeray]

Hello,

Indeed there seems to be some problem with the Hover feature in the TGanttSeries.
However, it doesn't look related to the fix for #1936. I've checked it didn't work either with v2018.25, the version previous to that fix.
I've added this as a new ticket in the public tracker here:
http://bugs.teechart.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2269

[Yeray]

Hello again,

I've just found the fix for #2269.
If you own the sources you can apply the fix with a couple of modifications in GanttCh.pas:

- Add this at the end of TGanttSeries.ClickPointer function:

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Function TGanttSeries.ClickedPointer( ValueIndex,tmpX,tmpY:Integer;
                                      x,y:Integer):Boolean;
begin
//...

  if result then
     IClickedPart:=scpPointer;
end;

- At TGanttSeries.DrawValue procedure, change this:

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    PrepareHoverPen(ValueIndex);

For this:

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    PreparePointerHoverPen(ValueIndex);

[konzeptum_sd]

Hello,

thank you for the quick reaction and fix.
I'm using a license without source code, so I'll just wait for the next version.

All the best,
Stefan