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Adds xy.tooltip(mode="x") (and mode="y"): a shared-axis tooltip in the model Recharts uses by default and Plotly calls hovermode="x unified".

Behavior

  • The pointer only has to be inside the plot. Its coordinate along the band axis picks the data; the perpendicular coordinate is ignored, so the whole plot height (width) is the hit target.
  • Every eligible series snaps to its point nearest along the band axis; the closest to the pointer sets the band, and every series whose snapped point projects to the same coordinate joins it. Index-aligned series therefore read as one band whose boundaries fall halfway between adjacent points. A series with no point at that coordinate is omitted, not guessed.
  • The tooltip shows the band coordinate as its title, then one row per series with the series name painted in the series colour and its value along the other axis. title=, fields=, and format= keep their meaning.
  • The tooltip follows the pointer (the one exception to data-space anchoring, because a band has several points); a new tooltip_cursor DOM slot draws the cursor line at the snapped coordinate, reprojected on every draw; each series gets an active dot drawn from its CPU columns in the series colour.
  • xy:hover fires once per band change with points[] holding one entry per series; one exact kernel pick goes out per series and each reply replaces its row.
  • Density tiers, bars, rectangles, ribbons, funnels, heatmaps and segments keep their own hover geometry; legend-hidden series are excluded; polar falls back to nearest; keyboard traversal and static exports are unchanged. The default mode="nearest" is byte-identical to before on the wire.

Fixed on the way

Adding the active dots exposed that the existing nearest-mode hover highlight dot had stopped rendering entirely: the full point program multiplies fill alpha by the per-item a_style.x factor, the regular scatter draw moved to the simpler point program that never sets that constant attribute, and _drawHoverPoint inherited its default of 0. It now sets every constant attribute and stroke uniform the program reads. Verified in real Chrome by counting highlight-coloured pixels on the presented canvas (0 → 520 around the hovered point) and pinned by test_browser_nearest_hover_highlight_is_visible.

Verified

Browser probes drive the real client: pointer far above Page B, horizontally aligned → Page B, pv 1398, uv 3000, two active targets, cursor at Page B's x spanning the plot height; moving inside the band re-places the tooltip and sends no new picks; two pixels past the midpoint → Page C; two pixels before → Page B; outside the plot → nothing; legend-hiding uv → one row; xy:hover carries two points. A mode="y" probe on a horizontal layout, a regression probe that the default still requires the pointer near a point and never creates the cursor element, and byte-identical SVG/PNG with and without the option.

Spec / docs

spec/api/interaction.md §7.3 (new) and the §3 event row; tooltip_cursor in spec/api/styling.md, docs/styling/chrome-slots.md, and the regenerated capability matrix (48 → 49 slots, counts updated in export.md, chrome-slots.md, the dossier); docs/components/tooltips.md gains a "Shared Tooltip Along an Axis" section with a live demo.

Live capture

Pointer (red ring) far above Page B; the band tooltip, the cursor line at Page B, and both active dots in their series colours.

shared-axis tooltip

Full suite 4194 passed locally (the one failure is the pre-existing pandas time-series locator case on main, fixed separately in #508).

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  • New Features

    • Added shared-axis tooltips with mode="x" or mode="y", showing aligned points across series.
    • Added cursor lines, per-series highlight dots, aggregated hover events, and grouped-bar support.
    • Added the tooltip_cursor styling slot for customizing cursor lines.
    • Preserved nearest-point tooltips as the default behavior.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Restored hover highlight dots for nearest-point tooltips.
    • Improved cursor positioning for partially clipped bars.
  • Documentation

    • Documented shared-axis tooltip behavior, styling, events, and export compatibility.

…ctive dots

Recharts' axis tooltip and Plotly's hovermode="x unified": with mode="x" the
pointer only has to be inside the plot, its horizontal position snaps to the
nearest x value, and every series' point at that x is listed at once while
the vertical position is ignored. The plot divides into full-height bands
whose boundaries fall halfway between adjacent points; a cursor line marks
the snapped x; each series shows an active dot; the tooltip follows the
pointer. mode="y" mirrors it along the y axis. The default, mode="nearest",
is unchanged and ships nothing new on the wire.

Client: `_hover` routes to `_hoverBand` when the mode is set. `_bandHits`
snaps every eligible series (point and line marks with retained CPU columns;
density tiers, bars, rectangles, ribbons, funnels, heatmaps and segments keep
their own hover geometry, legend-hidden series are out, polar falls back to
nearest) to its nearest point along the band axis via the new
`_nearestCpuIndexAlong` (which `_nearestCpuIndex` now delegates to), takes
the candidate closest to the pointer as the band, and admits every series
whose snapped point projects to the same coordinate within 0.5 CSS px. The
band tooltip renders a title for the coordinate (or the authored template)
and one row per series with the name painted in the series colour, honoring
fields/format; it follows the pointer rather than anchoring, and a new
`tooltip_cursor` DOM slot draws the line across the plot, reprojected on
every draw. Active dots draw from the CPU columns through a scratch VAO
rather than each trace's vertex buffer (a smoothed or stepped line's vertex
index is not its data index), in the series colour. `xy:hover` carries one
`points[]` entry per series; one exact pick per series goes to the kernel
and each reply replaces its own row, matched by seq ahead of the single-pick
sequence check.

Fixed on the way: the existing nearest-mode hover highlight dot had stopped
rendering. The full point program multiplies fill alpha by the per-item
`a_style.x` factor; the regular scatter draw moved to the simpler point
program that never sets that constant attribute, so `_drawHoverPoint`
inherited its default of 0. It now sets every constant attribute and stroke
uniform the program reads, and a probe pins the highlight paint landing on
the presented canvas.

Spec: interaction.md §7.3 (new) and the §3 xy:hover row; the slot joins
styling.md, chrome-slots.md and the regenerated capability matrix (48 -> 49
slots; counts updated in export.md and the dossier); a live capture under
spec/assets. Docs gain a "Shared Tooltip Along an Axis" section with a demo.

Tests: wire option (opt-in only, validation, dataclass positional order,
re-validation of a mutated node), browser probes for the x band (far-above
selection, same-band re-placement without new picks, midpoint boundary in
both directions, outside-plot hide, legend-hidden exclusion, cursor geometry,
series-coloured labels and active dots measured on the presented canvas, one
pick per series, xy:hover points), the y band, the unchanged default, the
restored nearest-mode highlight, and byte-identical static exports.
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Adds xy.tooltip(mode="x"|"y") shared-axis tooltips. The client selects and groups series points, renders cursor lines and active dots, dispatches aggregated hover events, and requests exact picks. The Python API, styling slots, documentation, and tests cover the new modes.

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Shared-axis tooltip modes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tooltip mode and slot contracts
python/xy/components.py, python/xy/dom.py
Adds validated nearest, x, and y tooltip modes. Non-default modes serialize on the wire. Adds the tooltip_cursor DOM slot.
Band selection and rendering
js/src/50_chartview.ts, js/src/52_tooltip.ts, js/src/54_kernel.ts, js/src/56_animation.ts
Adds axis-based hit selection, grouped series targets, bar-footprint handling, cursor positioning, band tooltip rows, active dots, state clearing, and resource cleanup.
Band picks and hover payloads
js/src/54_kernel.ts, js/src/57_viewstate.ts
Routes band pick replies to dedicated handling and preserves one structured hover point per series.
Styling, documentation, and validation
js/src/20_theme.ts, docs/..., spec/api/..., news/509.feature.md, tests/test_tooltip_band.py, tests/test_static_client_security.py, tests/test_type_surface.py
Documents the new modes and slot, applies cursor styling, updates slot counts, and validates browser behavior, exports, payloads, context recovery, and nearest-mode rendering.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Pointer
  participant ChartView
  participant TooltipRenderer
  participant Kernel
  Pointer->>ChartView: hover at plot coordinate
  ChartView->>ChartView: _hoverBand selects and groups series hits
  ChartView->>TooltipRenderer: render band rows and position cursor
  ChartView->>Kernel: request per-series picks
  Kernel-->>ChartView: pick_result
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Shared-axis tooltips add x/y band selection, cursor rendering, and aggregated series details while preserving existing behavior. The reviewed off-plot selection concern is addressed, so the change is ready to merge.

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Merging this PR will improve performance by 17.4%

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- Line 205: Update the documentation sentence describing mode="y" to state that
it selects along the Cartesian y axis generally, while optionally mentioning
horizontal layouts as one use case; do not imply that support is limited to
horizontal layouts.

In `@docs/styling/chrome-slots.md`:
- Line 41: Update the tooltip_cursor row in the slot description to name both
xy.tooltip(mode="x") and xy.tooltip(mode="y") modes, describing the
corresponding vertical and horizontal cursor lines and aligning with the
existing API documentation.

In `@js/src/50_chartview.ts`:
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alongside the other per-context caches in the webglcontextrestored handler and
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…er under show=False

Edge-case pass over xy.tooltip(mode="x"|"y"). Four breaks, all fixed with
browser regression tests:

- Bars were excluded from bands, so a bar chart in band mode showed no
  tooltip at all. A bar's footprint (pos +/- width/2 in plot px) is now its
  band extent; touching footprints chain into one band, so grouped slots
  read as one category with the cursor and title on the category centre.
  Bar series snap to the chain, not the pointer: from the gap after a
  category the pointer is nearer the previous category's slot of the far
  series, which listed one series instead of all.
- The band-dot scratch VAO outlived its GL context. After a context loss
  the recovery frame bound the dead handle, the frame-ready check saw the
  error, and the restore retried forever. _initGl forgets the scratch
  objects before rebuilding; destroy() deletes them (they leaked into the
  shared host).
- show=False dropped xy:hover in band mode; nearest mode keeps it. Only the
  tooltip element and cursor are hidden now.
- Bar-band titles showed the category index instead of its label.

Probed and unchanged: interleaved x grids, log-axis boundaries, time
titles, NaN rows, y2 series, all-hidden legend, zoom off-plot, density +
line mix, decimated 1M-point line, 30 series, duplicate x, single point,
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Six review findings on this PR, five of them reachable from supported charts:

- A category-filtered trace draws a subset, so `_visMap` maps each drawn
  instance to its shipped row while `g.n` counts the drawn ones. Treating `g.n`
  as a prefix of the CPU column made the band scan rows the legend had hidden
  and drop visible rows past the prefix. Walk the map's source indices instead.
- A band pick reply the kernel could not resolve, or one whose trace has since
  gone, returned silently and left the band's rows and cursor on screen
  describing points that are not there. Exact or nothing (§16), as in nearest
  mode: hide.
- A reply could also replace a row it was never requested for, because `seq`
  alone does not prove the slot still holds that series — the map is rebuilt
  per band. Verify the trace and index against `_hoverTargets[slot]`.
- Every band active dot read row 0's size, since the scratch buffer holds one
  vertex and its index was used for the size-channel lookup too. Pass the
  hovered row for that lookup and keep drawing vertex 0.
- The dots uploaded raw CPU columns while the cursor and title used
  transition-interpolated coordinates, so mid-transition the dot sat at the
  final position. Interpolate in encoded space, which is what the buffer takes
  and avoids a decode/re-encode round trip.
- The grouped-bar chain expansion ran only when the ANCHOR was a bar, so a line
  or area point anchoring a category that also holds bars listed the line and
  dropped every bar beside it. Run it whenever any candidate is a bar; the
  passes already ignore non-bar candidates.

Docs: `mode="y"` is a y-axis mode on any Cartesian chart, not a
horizontal-layout-only one, and the `tooltip_cursor` slot serves both modes.
Brings the branch up to 72a069f; the five commits since are docs-site only and
merge without conflict.
Each fails on the unfixed client and passes with it:

- a category-filtered trace whose drawn rows sit past a -sized prefix
  resolves to a drawn row, never a hidden one (the prefix scan returned row 1
  of 5 instead of row 4, and returned a hidden row outright when the pointer
  sat on one);
- a band pick reply for a row its slot no longer holds is ignored rather than
  overwriting that series (the unfixed client showed `pv12345`), and a reply
  the kernel could not resolve takes the band down instead of leaving a stale
  readout titled from the wrong category;
- a line point anchoring a category of four grouped bar slots keeps every bar
  in the band. Four slots are what makes it visible: the inner two touch at the
  centre so the line beats them on distance and anchors, while the outer two do
  not reach it — the unfixed client listed `uv`, `amt` and the line, dropping
  `pv` and `qty`.

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@Alek99 — Sriman asked me to get this ready to merge, so I've pushed three commits to alek/tooltip-x-band (additive only, no history rewritten): 9cf6b2f the fixes, 6d33983 a merge of current main, ed01bdf the regression tests. Happy to revert any of it if you'd rather take them yourself.

What was blocking: 11 unresolved review threads, five of them real bugs reachable from supported charts. All are now fixed, tested and answered in their threads.

finding what went wrong
_visMap prefix scan (cubic P1) A category-filtered trace draws a subset: _visMap maps drawn instance → shipped row while g.n counts the drawn ones. Scanning g.n rows of the CPU column read rows the legend had hidden and missed visible rows past that prefix.
Band pick miss (cubic P2) A reply the kernel couldn't resolve, or one whose trace had gone, returned silently and left the band's rows and cursor on screen describing points that aren't there. Now exact-or-nothing (§16), as in nearest mode.
Mismatched reply (cubic P2) seq alone doesn't prove the slot still holds that series — the map is rebuilt per band — so a late reply could overwrite the wrong series' row. Now verified against _hoverTargets[slot].
Active-dot size (cubic P2) The scratch buffer holds one vertex, and index 0 was used for the size-channel lookup too, so every band dot drew row 0's size.
Grouped-bar chain (cubic P2) The expansion ran only when the anchor was a bar, so a line point anchoring a category that also holds bars listed the line and dropped the bars.
Band-dot coordinates (CodeRabbit) Dots uploaded raw CPU columns while the cursor and title used interpolated ones, so mid-transition the dot sat at the final position. Now interpolated in encoded space — no decode/re-encode round trip.

Plus the two doc rows: mode="y" is a y-axis mode on any Cartesian chart rather than horizontal-layout-only, and tooltip_cursor serves both modes.

Three new tests in tests/test_tooltip_band.py, each verified to fail on the unfixed client:

  • the prefix scan returned row 1 of 5 instead of row 4, and returned a hidden row outright when the pointer sat on one;
  • the mismatched reply showed pv12345, and the miss left a stale band titled from the wrong category;
  • the four-slot bar case listed uv, amt and the line, dropping pv and qty. Four slots is what makes it visible — the inner two touch at the centre so the line beats them on distance and anchors, while the outer two never reach it.

Verified: full suite 4361 passed (the 3 failures are test_legend_best_live and two test_shared_glhost pixel-hash tests, which fail identically on this branch's own base in my sandbox and pass in CI); docs app 138 passed; ruff and pre-commit clean.

One note: a backtick in ed01bdf's message was eaten by shell expansion, so it reads "past a -sized prefix" where it should say g.n. Left as is rather than force-push your branch.

#521 is stacked on this and stays review-clean on top of it.


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[Medium risk] Adds shared-axis tooltip mode to the charting library.

The PR appears safe to merge, though the centre-hover test should target the coordinate it claims to validate.

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Summary

The PR adds shared-axis tooltip selection, grouped hover readouts, a cursor styling slot, and active dots, while restoring the nearest-mode hover highlight. The latest changes correct animated-bar baseline decoding and keep mixed-axis cursor footprints on their respective axes; one updated test helper no longer probes the plot coordinate it describes.

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greptile's first full pass over this PR found three lifecycle defects; none
were in the eleven threads fixed earlier.

- Shared-axis snapping accepted any finite projection, so a row panned or
  zoomed off the plot stayed selectable. A pointer inside the plot could
  therefore raise a tooltip and hover state for an invisible point, with no
  cursor to locate it (the cursor already refuses to draw off-plot). A
  candidate whose footprint lies wholly outside the band axis is rejected; a
  bar counts as visible while any part of it overlaps.
- The band holds GPU trace objects and rows resolved from them, and both
  `updatePayload` and a non-in-place append replace those objects. The band
  survived, so the next draw painted active dots and tooltip rows from the
  retired traces against the new axes until the pointer moved. Both
  replacement sites now drop it; an in-place append keeps the object and needs
  no reset.
- With `show=False`, `_renderBandTooltip` hid by clearing the whole band. That
  is wrong on its own terms -- the mode's contract keeps the hover event, the
  picks and the active dots, and `_hoverBand` already treats it that way -- and
  it dropped `_bandPicks` while their replies were in flight. Those replies
  then missed the band map, and the last still matched `_pickSeq`, so it fell
  into the single-pick handler and dispatched an `exact: true` hover carrying
  one series where the band promises all of them. Hiding now touches only the
  element, and abandoning outstanding picks advances `_pickSeq` so a late reply
  can never be read as an ordinary point.

Three browser regression tests, each failing on the unfixed client: a view
panned clear of the data selects nothing and shows no cursor (and recovers when
panned back); a real `updatePayload` leaves no band behind for the next draw;
and a hidden shared tooltip keeps its two targets and pick bookkeeping across
replies, dispatching only whole-band exact hovers.
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In `@js/src/50_chartview.ts`:
- Around line 8954-8955: Update _bandCandidate to reject point candidates
outside either plot dimension before they enter _bandHits, _hoverTargets, or
_bandRows. Apply the same whole-plot visibility rule to the bar candidate logic,
but reject a bar only when its entire footprint lies outside the plot rather
than when any portion crosses a boundary.

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All reported issues were addressed across 5 files (changes from recent commits).

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Four review findings across greptile, cubic and CodeRabbit, each with a
regression test that fails without its fix.

- A bar joins the band while ANY part of its footprint overlaps the plot,
  but `_positionTooltipCursor` hides on an off-plot coordinate, so a bar
  more than half clipped by the edge was selectable with its band centre
  outside: the tooltip appeared with nothing locating it. The cursor now
  carries the band's footprint and is drawn on the part that is visible.
  A point band's footprint is its own coordinate, so nothing moves.

- `fields=["x"]` in `mode="x"` asks for the band coordinate and nothing
  else, which the title already carries — the rows should be names alone.
  Filtering the band field out and then testing the remainder for
  emptiness read that as "no fields configured" and fell back to the
  default y value, ignoring the selection. An authored EMPTY list still
  means unset, as in nearest mode.

- `updatePayload` and `_applyAppend` return early when the GL context is
  gone, having already replaced the retained spec and payload. Recovery
  rebuilds every GPU trace from those and touches no hover state, so the
  band outlived the traces it was resolved from across the whole restore.
  Both early returns now drop it, as the live paths already did.

- The shared-tooltip docs promised an active dot for "each series"; bars
  get none, as §7.3 says, because the bar is the mark.
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cubic (P2, re-detected) and CodeRabbit on `_bandCandidate`. The guard
added for the band axis states the rule in its own comment: a coordinate
that has left the plot cannot be picked by a pointer inside it, and
accepting one produces a tooltip and hover state for an invisible point
with nothing marking where it is. Only `lo`/`hi` were bounded, and those
run along the band axis alone, so the other axis was never asked.

Measured in the real client -- two lines, y axis pinned to 0..5, series B
at ~504, hovering mid-plot in `mode="x"`:

  rows                      ["A1.4", "B504"]
  series B pixels in plot   0
  series B pixels outside   0

So B reported a value 100x above the visible range while painting nothing
anywhere to locate it -- the exact case the band-axis guard exists to
prevent, one axis over. The pointer still ignores that axis when choosing
the band; §7.3 is about what selects a point, and this is about whether
the point is on screen at all.

A bar is a span rather than a coordinate there: it runs from its baseline
(`value0`, else `value0_const`) to its value, so it stays while any part
of that span overlaps, mirroring the footprint rule already used along the
band axis. Collapsing it to the value alone would have dropped every bar
taller than the view, which is the ordinary zoomed bar chart. Measured:

  bar body crosses plot, top far above   kept     rows ["bars50"]
  bar wholly outside the view            dropped  rows []
  bar fully in view                      kept     unchanged

Two tests, both failing on 4a542b6. Full suite 4369 passed; the three
failures are the two `test_shared_glhost` pixel hashes that fail the same
way on unmodified sources in my sandbox, and `test_bench_vs`'s hard
timeout, which passes 3/3 run alone on this commit and on 4a542b6 alike.

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@Alek99 — I pushed one commit to this branch (872c139), since this was the last thing holding the PR and it's a small change. Revert it freely if you disagree; the reasoning is below so you can judge it quickly.

What was blocking: cubic wasn't withholding approval over a style nit — it was re-detecting an issue it had already reported, which blocks its auto-approval outright. CodeRabbit filed the same thing independently. Both point at _bandCandidate only bounding lo/hi, which run along the band axis.

Why I treated it as a bug rather than a design question: the guard you already wrote states the rule in its own comment —

A row whose coordinate has left the plot after a pan or zoom cannot be picked by a pointer that is inside it. The cursor already refuses to draw off-plot, so accepting one produced a tooltip and hover state for an invisible point with nothing marking where it is.

That's exactly what still happens on the other axis. Two lines, y axis pinned to 0..5, series B at ~504, hovering mid-plot in mode="x":

rows                      ["A1.4", "B504"]
series B pixels in plot    0
series B pixels outside    0

B reports a value 100× above the visible range and paints nothing anywhere to locate it. No gutter bleed — the dot is clipped away entirely, so it's your stated failure mode precisely, one axis over.

This doesn't touch §7.3. The pointer still ignores the perpendicular coordinate when choosing the band; this is only about whether the chosen point is on screen at all.

The bar case is why it isn't a one-liner. A bar is a span on that axis, not a coordinate — baseline (value0, else value0_const) to value — so it stays while any part overlaps, mirroring your footprint rule along the band axis. Collapsing it to the value would have dropped every bar taller than the view, i.e. the ordinary zoomed bar chart:

case result
bar body crosses plot, top far above kept — ["bars50"]
bar wholly outside the view dropped — []
bar fully in view kept, unchanged

Two tests added, both failing on 4a542b6. Full suite 4369 passed; the three failures are the two test_shared_glhost pixel hashes that fail identically on unmodified sources in my sandbox, and test_bench_vs's hard timeout, which passes 3/3 run alone on this commit and on 4a542b6 alike.

One thing I did not decide for you: whether a series that's off-plot vertically should still be reportable by design — someone could argue a time-series band ought to tell you a value even when you've zoomed past it. I read your comment as already answering no, but that's the one place to push back if I read it wrong.


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Five review threads, four of them against 872c139's own fix.

cubic (P2, conf 10) and greptile: a bar is a span on BOTH its axes, and
`mode` decides which one is perpendicular. 872c139 only ever measured
baseline..value, so whenever the band axis was the VALUE axis -- `mode="y"`
on vertical bars, `mode="x"` on horizontal ones -- the bar was treated as a
bare coordinate on the position axis it actually straddles, and every
visibly clipped bar was dropped. A single bar spanning -0.4..0.4 with the
view starting at 0.1 went from selectable on 4a542b6 to gone on 872c139.
`_barSpanAcross` now answers per axis: `pos ± width/2` across the position
axis, baseline..value along the value axis.

greptile (P1): rows that TIE on the band coordinate are equally "at" it,
and `_nearestCpuIndexAlong` keeps the first. Once visibility gated the
candidate, that arbitrary pick decided whether the series appeared at all
-- a point whose twin at the same x is plotted took the series out of the
band. A tie now prefers a row that is drawn. Only exact ties: a farther
row is at a different coordinate, and §7.3 omits a series with no point
there rather than guessing one.

greptile (P1): a stacked update animates the baseline. `_cpuPointValue`
already interpolates the tip; the baseline was read settled, so a bar
drawn across the plot mid-transition vanished from the band while it was
on screen. The baseline is interpolated the same way.

greptile (P1) and cubic (P2, conf 9), both pre-dating 872c139: the band
cursor's footprint was captured in plot PIXELS at hover time, but
`_positionTooltipCursor` reprojects `x`/`y` on every draw and a pan or zoom
does not rebuild the band. Panning B's bar to span -10.1..78.6 against a
plot starting at 62 put the cursor at 73.1 instead of the visible edge at
62. The footprint is carried in data space and projected through the
current axes, so it moves with the point.

cubic (P3, conf 9): `Object.keys(view._bandPicks)` is always `[]` because
`_bandPicks` is a Map, so the hidden-tooltip test asserted nothing. It
reads `.size` now -- and passes, so the bookkeeping was right; the test
just was not proving it.

Four new tests, each failing on 872c139; the off-plot-perpendicular one
from 872c139 is kept and renamed. Full suite 4371 passed. Run alone, the
only failures are the two `test_shared_glhost` pixel hashes that fail the
same way on unmodified sources in my sandbox; `test_bench_vs` and
`test_legend_best_live` fail only under full-suite load and pass in
isolation here and on 4a542b6.
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Four more threads, three of them against 32bd953's own fix.

greptile (P1): `_transitionPrevValue0Values` is written as
`encode(value0, newBar.value1Meta)` and read back by the animation itself
through `oldBar.value1Meta` -- the start baseline rides the TIP's metadata,
not the baseline column's. 32bd953 decoded it with `value0Meta`, so
wherever the two columns differ the visibility check measured a different
bar from the one being drawn.

The test did not catch it because the probe encoded its fake transition
state with `value0Meta` too: test and code agreed with each other and both
disagreed with the real producer. It now encodes the way the animation
does, and the fixture gives the two columns deliberately different ranges
(offsets 0.5 and 10000) so a wrong decode lands thousands of units away
rather than within rounding. Wrong decode: start baseline -9699.5, span
-4849..50, bar misses the 100..200 view. Right: 300, span 50..150, crosses
it. Fails on 32bd953.

greptile's second point on that thread -- that this interpolates data
values while the shader interpolates projected positions, so log and
symlog axes can disagree -- is real but predates this work:
`_cpuPointValue` interpolates the TIP the same way for every band and
hover readout. Fixing it belongs in one place for both tiers rather than
here, and is left as a follow-up.

greptile (P1): a band can hold series bound to different axes, and data
values from two axes do not share a number line. One min/max across the
band mixed them -- bars at 0.6..1.4 on `x` and 60..140 on `x2` union to
0.6..140, a range neither occupies -- and it was then projected through
the anchor's axis alone. Each slot now keeps its own axes and is projected
separately, unioned as pixels. Pinned structurally rather than by a moved
pixel: the bad union only ever widened the span, and a span wider than the
plot clamps to the plot, which is where a bar clipped at the edge wanted
the cursor anyway. No input I could build moved it, and the test says so.

cubic (P2, conf 9): the `rows()` refactor in 32bd953 dropped the
`targets == 0` assertion the off-plot bar case had in 872c139, so an
invisible bar could have stayed an active hover target unnoticed. Both
away cases assert rows and targets again.

cubic (P3, conf 8): `hover(x, y)` is CANVAS-relative -- it sets
`clientX = rect.left + x` and `_hover` takes `clientX - rect.left` back
out -- so `_band_at_centre` aimed (plot.x, plot.y) up and left of the
centre it named. Worth more than its priority: with the pointer actually
at the centre, the tie test landed on x=2 instead of the tie at x=1 and
failed. It was passing because it was mis-aimed. It now hovers the tie
directly.

Full suite 4373 passed. Run alone, the only failures are the two
`test_shared_glhost` pixel hashes that fail the same way on unmodified
sources in my sandbox; `test_legend_best_live` fails only under
full-suite load and passes in isolation.
chart,
setup
+ """
hover(view.plot.x + view.plot.w / 2, view.plot.y + view.plot.h / 2);

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P2 Centre probe selects wrong band

The shared-axis hover path treats these coordinates as plot-relative, but the helper adds the plot margins. When the plot has margins, the tests probe a band away from the centre, so a regression at the actual centre could go undetected.

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hover(view.plot.x + view.plot.w / 2, view.plot.y + view.plot.h / 2);
hover(view.plot.w / 2, view.plot.h / 2);

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1 issue found across 3 files (changes from recent commits).

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<file name="tests/test_tooltip_band.py">

<violation number="1" location="tests/test_tooltip_band.py:1324">
P3: `(view._bandCursor || {}) && state().cursorLeft` is an ineffective guard: `{}` is truthy, so the expression always evaluates to `state().cursorLeft` whether or not `_bandCursor` exists. The field is also never read by the Python assertions (they use `payload["state"]["cursorLeft"]`), so both the payload member and its bogus guard are dead weight. Simplify it or drop it.</violation>
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hover(at(1), 8);
done({ state: state(), spans: (view._bandCursor || {}).spans || null,
plotX: view.plot.x, plotW: view.plot.w,
cursorLeft: (view._bandCursor || {}) && state().cursorLeft });

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P3: (view._bandCursor || {}) && state().cursorLeft is an ineffective guard: {} is truthy, so the expression always evaluates to state().cursorLeft whether or not _bandCursor exists. The field is also never read by the Python assertions (they use payload["state"]["cursorLeft"]), so both the payload member and its bogus guard are dead weight. Simplify it or drop it.

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<comment>`(view._bandCursor || {}) && state().cursorLeft` is an ineffective guard: `{}` is truthy, so the expression always evaluates to `state().cursorLeft` whether or not `_bandCursor` exists. The field is also never read by the Python assertions (they use `payload["state"]["cursorLeft"]`), so both the payload member and its bogus guard are dead weight. Simplify it or drop it.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -1257,3 +1287,54 @@ def test_browser_an_animating_bar_is_measured_where_it_is_drawn() -> None:
+  hover(at(1), 8);
+  done({ state: state(), spans: (view._bandCursor || {}).spans || null,
+         plotX: view.plot.x, plotW: view.plot.w,
+         cursorLeft: (view._bandCursor || {}) && state().cursorLeft });
+""",
+        "mixed axis band",
</file context>

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