How can I determine if the right mouse button was clicked in a Plottable chart?

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The Plottable Click Interaction doesn't pass the callback any sort of event (synthetic or otherwise) so I can't figure out a way to determine which button was clicked.

Has anyone wired up the right mouse button to a Plottable chart?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 08 '16 at 21:37

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This problem was fixed recently here https://github.com/palantir/plottable/pull/3130.

answered Dec 08 '16 at 21:37

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '16 at 20:47

The solution I ended up implementing is a bit of a hack, but since I don't have access to the click event, I decided to use a combination of a native event and a Plottable Interaction.

Using a native event listener I register an onClick on the entire svg and use the passed in event to determine which button was clicked. That's only half the solution though, since I no longer have the point (x/y coord) of where on the dataPane was clicked. To get that I registered a callback with Plottable's Interaction.Pointer.onPointerMove() in effect recording the mouse position perpetually by setting a global variable, so my click callback has access to the Point, and I can determine what on the chart was clicked.

I filed a feature request on GitHub: https://github.com/palantir/plottable/issues/3090 — Joel Mellon, Aug 01 '16 at 21:01

How can I determine if the right mouse button was clicked in a Plottable chart?

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