No way to disable mouse-scroll zoom for geo subplots

[bpostlethwaite]

I have heard a few reports of folks struggling to disable mouse-zoom. First stage could be updating our docs to assert that this is currently not supported. Second stage is to support it.

[etpinard]

We need to better define what layout.dragmode and config.scrollZoom do and how they play together.

[etpinard]

As config.scrollZoom is set to false by default and geo scrolling is enable by default, we can't make config.scrollZoom a geo object option.

I think the solution here would to add an attribute, possibly layout.geo.scrollmode / layout.scene.scrollmode and later move config.scrollZoom to layout.scrollmode for cartesian plots.

[mattfarkas]

Just wondering if this has been addressed yet. Thanks!

[etpinard]

@mattfarkas No.

[mdfederici]

It would be nice if scroll zoom was a layout attribute such as dragmode and hovermode. Likewise it would be nice to have an 'after click' event.

My use case is that I have a page with a bunch of plots where I by and large want scroll zoom but only when the user is actually trying ot interact with the chart. I want them to indicate this roughly by clicking on the chart (ie to pan). When this happens, i'd want to toggle scroll zoom on. If i don't do this, the first chart the user wheels over will snipe the events.

[aztlan2k]

Seems this has been open for almost a year now without any progress having been made on it. I'm just wondering if anyone has started work on it... or - if not - has anyone at least given it some thought to the point where they have an idea what needs to be done?

I may be able to put in some work on this but being new to plotly, i'm not sure what needs to be done. On my initial read-through I thought i new what needed to be done but once I attempted a fix it didn't actually work as expected.

any guidance would be appreciated...

[avnerkantor]

https://plot.ly/javascript/disable-zoom/ ?

[aztlan2k]

@avnerkantor Thanks so much! I actually never came across that. That does resolve my needs.

@bpostlethwaite I wonder if https://plot.ly/javascript/disable-zoom/ is sufficient to close this issue. It allows for the disabling of scroll & zoom on an axis by using the fixedrange attribute of the [xy]axis layout parameter, as can be seen in this example: http://codepen.io/plotly/pen/PZPPPj

It does seem like the fixedrange attribute needs to be documented a bit better though... since i didn't come initially come across it in my search.

[aztlan2k]

never mind on the documentation... its actually there. don't understand why i personally didn't see it the first time! doh! Thanx again @avnerkantor

[bpostlethwaite]

@etpinard's call on that one

[monfera]

A minor point: setting fixedrange: false still captures the mouse event, and the overall document isn't scrolling when wheeling over a plot, though that's a user expectation with mostly static content.