Oh, that's awesome -- didn't even think that as a possibility. Great! And for the record, I really appreciate the quick turnaround -- really didn't know what to expect. If I come across anything else that I can't figure out, I'll definitely post here again. Thanks again Sergey.
On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 2:03:29 PM UTC-7, Sergey wrote: > > Sorry, there's no debug code available. We do have a 'select' event, which > you can attach via google.visualization.events.addListener. This event is > only triggered when the selection *changes*, so in you shouldn't be able > to get into an infinite loop, since eventually the selection set would > stabilize, and calling setSelection wouldn't produce any more events. > > On Fri Jan 16 2015 at 3:58:29 PM Matthew Cory <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> That's great! Glad I could help :) >> >> Kinda related to that, is there (or will there be) any way to determine >> in the select event whether it was triggered through a click or via the >> method call? I already have something in mind to determine that in my own >> code when the time comes, but it'd be nice if it was provided so I don't >> have to add more code of my own that might break -- in my case, I was >> planning on programmatically selecting the record in one chart when it's >> clicked on in the other chart, so knowing what triggered the selection will >> prevent a constant loop. >> >> Thanks Sergey! >> >> (Oh, as a PS -- is there any kind of "debug" version of the code? I'm >> still learning my way around it, and while the docs are great they don't >> help much for some of the things I've had problems with; I'll get error >> messages like "undefined is not a function" and it takes me forever to find >> out that I had an empty cell or something improperly formatted or whatever.) >> >> >> On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 1:37:31 PM UTC-7, Sergey wrote: >> >>> Hi Matt, >>> >>> You found a bug! Thank you! We have already found where the issue is and >>> hope to include the fix with our next release. >>> >> On Fri Jan 16 2015 at 3:25:26 PM Matthew Cory <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> Okay, I've been searching on this for a while and can't find any kind of >>>> answer that makes any progress so hopefully someone here can point out >>>> what >>>> I'm doing wrong. >>>> >>>> I have a table chart and a timeline chart, both constructed through >>>> ChartWrappers. The table is in a dashboard object because I'm trying out >>>> the filtering controls; for the moment, the timeline isn't -- while they >>>> share the same data, the timeline needs it preprocessed and sorted >>>> differently, and I didn't want to bork the table. (I'm not familiar >>>> enough >>>> with DataViews and other possibilities to know if I can have everything >>>> handled in a view object, but at the moment it looks like that might be >>>> more along the lines of optimization than a fix for this. If I'm wrong, >>>> let me know.) Anyways... >>>> >>>> The gist of the page I'm working on is to let the user select an entry >>>> from either the table or the timeline and display the details of that >>>> entry >>>> in another div. Handling the actual selection and displaying the info is >>>> easy enough, but what I *want* to do is highlight the selected record in >>>> both charts at the same time, to more obviously show which is which. I >>>> thought the following snippet would work (roughly this; same principles): >>>> >>>> // in table-selection event handler >>>> var selected = table.getChart().getSelection()[0]; >>>> var rowIdx = selected.row; >>>> >>>> var entryId = // get the id value of the entry specified with rowIdx >>>> >>>> var timelineEntryIdx = // get the index of the value in the timeline >>>> datatable >>>> // that has the same id as entry id. >>>> var timelineSelection = { >>>> row: timelineEntryIdx, >>>> column: null >>>> }; >>>> >>>> timeline.getChart().setSelection([timelineSelection]); >>>> >>>> I have a select event handler tied to the timeline object as well; it >>>> will fire (sometimes, at least; sometimes nothing happens, and there's no >>>> rhyme or reason to whether it does or not) with the above code, but >>>> nothing >>>> gets highlighted. When I use console.log to see what the selection is, I >>>> get: >>>> >>>> [0] = { >>>> column: null, >>>> row: undefined >>>> } >>>> >>>> (And the column: null part isn't dependent on what I have above either; >>>> I've tried setting arbitrary numbers, both within and outside the range of >>>> columns, and it still comes back as null.) >>>> >>>> If I select an element on the timeline via the mouse, it works fine -- >>>> the event triggers every time and the selection object is properly defined. >>>> >>>> I know that the timeline setSelection method does *something* at least; >>>> I've had code set to clear the selection (i.e. setSelection([])) inside >>>> the >>>> table selection handler, and if I select something in the timeline with >>>> the >>>> mouse and then select something on the table, it clears the selection no >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> Any thoughts? Let me know if you need more info -- I've tried to make >>>> this as complete as possible without just c/p'ing my entire JS file, but I >>>> have no problems with putting in more info. >>>> >>>> --Matt >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Google Visualization API" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> >>> >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ >>>> group/google-visualization-api. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Visualization API" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. 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