fix(charts): linked cursor appears without a re-entry, and spans every chart on screen - #816
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The linked cursor's position lived in CSS variables on each container, so two chart groups on one page tracked two independent pointers. Move the ratio/visibility variables to the document element and the active-chart marker to a module singleton: every linked chart on screen now paints the cursor at the same time-bucket ratio, whichever group the pointer is in. Alignment sweeps the document rather than the entered container for the same reason. Also nudges the line from bg-border to bg-muted-foreground/45 — it was easy to lose against the grid.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe linked-cursor hook now stores active chart state and cursor CSS variables globally. Pointer handlers align overlays across all linked charts, and container props no longer expose inline styles or pointer event arguments. ChangesLinked cursor coordination
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant LinkedCursorContainer
participant useLinkedCursor
participant DocumentRoot
participant LinkedCharts
User->>LinkedCursorContainer: Enter or move pointer
LinkedCursorContainer->>useLinkedCursor: Invoke pointer handler
useLinkedCursor->>LinkedCharts: Align overlays across document
useLinkedCursor->>DocumentRoot: Set cursor ratio and visibility
DocumentRoot-->>LinkedCharts: Provide shared CSS variables
User->>LinkedCursorContainer: Leave pointer area
LinkedCursorContainer->>useLinkedCursor: Hide linked cursor
useLinkedCursor->>DocumentRoot: Set visibility to hidden
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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/use-linked-cursor.tsx`:
- Line 55: Update the active chart lifecycle around activeChartRef to add
unmount cleanup that clears the document root cursor visibility variables when
the active chart is removed, preventing a later LinkedCursorOverlay from
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| * moving from a chart in one linked container to a chart in another has to | ||
| * un-hide the first one's overlay, and the two containers are different hooks. | ||
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| const activeChartRef = { current: null as HTMLElement | null } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Clear global cursor state when the active chart unmounts.
When React removes the hovered chart, it does not call onPointerLeave. The document-level visibility remains 1, and a later-mounted LinkedCursorOverlay inherits the stale ratio before the user hovers a chart. Add unmount cleanup that clears the root variables when the active chart is removed.
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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/use-linked-cursor.tsx` at line 55, Update the active chart
lifecycle around activeChartRef to add unmount cleanup that clears the document
root cursor visibility variables when the active chart is removed, preventing a
later LinkedCursorOverlay from inheriting stale visibility state.
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…818) * revert(charts): restore the container-scoped linked cursor Reverts #816's globalization of the cursor position. It was written for a bug it did not cause and does not fix: the cursor appeared to be missing until you left the window and came back, which is an ALIGNMENT bug (see the next commit), not a scoping one. No route renders two linked containers at once, so cross-container linking bought nothing while widening the blast radius of every chart hover to the document element. * fix(charts): align the linked cursor on first move, not on pointer enter The cursor was invisible until you left the browser window and came back. Overlays are sized by alignOverlays, which ran only on the container's pointerenter and skips any plot still measuring zero. Whenever the pointer was already inside the container as the charts mounted — a route change or late data under a resting cursor — that one run found nothing but zero-width plots, and it never ran again: moving around inside a container does not re-enter it. The ratio and visibility variables were set on every move, so the cursor was 'on' the whole time, painting into overlays still at their unsized 0x0 default. Align on the first pointer move over a plot in each hover session instead, resetting the flag wherever the cursor hides. Same single sweep per session, no dependence on an event that may have fired too early. Also nudges the line from bg-border to bg-muted-foreground/45 — it was easy to lose against the grid.
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Two fixes to the existing linked cursor.
It needed a tab-out-and-back-in to start working
Overlays were sized only on the container's
pointerenter. When that fired before the plots had laid out — the pointer resting inside the grid while the charts mount, an SPA route change, data arriving late —alignOverlaysskipped every zero-width plot and never ran again. The cursor then turned on (ratio + visibility variables set) over overlays still at their unsized 0×0 default, and since moving the pointer inside the container never re-enters it, the only way to get a visible line was to leave the window and come back.Now aligned lazily, on the first pointer move over a plot in each hover session: same single sweep per session, no dependence on an event that may have fired too early.
Reproduced and verified on
/lab/bench/infraby dispatching apointermovewith no precedingpointerenter:--linked-cursor-visible1— cursor "on" but invisible572px×41The position is now shared across every chart on screen
--linked-cursor-ratio/--linked-cursor-visiblemove from the container element todocument.documentElement, and the active-chart marker becomes a module singleton — moving from a chart in group A to one in group B has to un-hide A's overlay, and those are different hook instances. Separate groups on one page (a metrics grid and a correlation strip) now track one pointer.alignOverlayssweeps the document rather than the entered container, for the same reason.Tooltips are untouched: only the hovered chart shows its own native cursor + tooltip; siblings get the CSS line.
Cursor line
bg-border→bg-muted-foreground/45. A small bump — it was easy to lose against the grid.No new per-pointer-move work: still CSS variables only, no React state.