# To subscribers of the xforms list from Steve Lamont <spl@ncmir.ucsd.edu> :
> This is a test file which displays a sum of sin()s and allows you to
> click on the curve. The line where you clicked is then displayed.
> Although along parts of the curve this works fine, at the minima and
> maxima of the curve it displays the same problems-- a displacement of
> the red marker from where you actually clicked on the curve.
There clearly is a problem in how fl_get_xyplot() finds the point for
your application. The XYPlot mouse handler simply searches for the
*first* point which falls inside a square area surrounding the pointer
and not for the *closest* point.
It works okay if the points are relatively widely dispersed but when
the points are packed closely together, it breaks, as it does in your
case.
Arguably, it should minimize the Euclidean distance from the cursor to
the data point but it doesn't.
The workaround is to use fl_get_win_mouse() to fetch the actual
location of the cursor, then use fl_xyplot_s2w() to get the X-Y grid
coordinate in your data units. Depending on your data, you can binary
search for the closest X-Y pair or a brute-force linear search scheme
if X is not monotonic.
spl
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