fix(charts): align the linked cursor on first move (and revert #816) - #818
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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.
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.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe linked-cursor hook now keeps cursor state per container. It applies CSS variables to the container, aligns overlays on the first pointer move, and updates its public container properties. ChangesLinked cursor behavior
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A late-loading chart overlay may remain misaligned or invisible until the cursor leaves and re-enters the chart group. This is a bounded visual issue with low merge risk. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/use-linked-cursor.tsx`:
- Around line 184-185: Update the alignment flow around alignedRef and
alignOverlays so overlays mounted after the initial hover are detected and
receive one additional alignment. Track whether any overlay remains unaligned or
observe sibling overlay mounts, then retry alignment once without reintroducing
layout reads on every pointer move.
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Retry alignment when a sibling overlay mounts.
At Line 184, alignedRef becomes true even if alignOverlays skipped an overlay that was not mounted yet. MetricsGrid mounts LinkedCursorOverlay only after item.isLoading becomes false. If the user hovers another ready chart first, the later-mounted overlay keeps its unset geometry for the rest of that hover session.
Track unaligned overlays, or observe overlay mounts, and run one additional alignment without restoring layout reads on every pointer move.
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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/use-linked-cursor.tsx` around lines 184 - 185, Update the
alignment flow around alignedRef and alignOverlays so overlays mounted after the
initial hover are detected and receive one additional alignment. Track whether
any overlay remains unaligned or observe sibling overlay mounts, then retry
alignment once without reintroducing layout reads on every pointer move.
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The linked cursor looked broken until you left the browser window and came back. #816 blamed the wrong thing and shipped a change that was not needed; this reverts it and fixes the actual bug.
The bug
alignOverlayssizes each overlay from its chart's plot rect, and skips any plot still measuring zero. It ran only on the container'spointerenter. Whenever the pointer was already inside the container as the charts mounted — a route change or late data under a resting cursor — that single run found nothing but zero-width plots, and it never ran again: moving around inside a container does not re-enter it.Meanwhile
--linked-cursor-ratio/--linked-cursor-visiblewere set on every move, so the cursor was "on" the whole time, painting into overlays still at their unsized 0×0 default. Leaving the window and returning firedpointerenteragain, by which point the plots had laid out — hence the tab-out-and-back-in.The fix
Align on the first pointer move over a plot in each hover session, resetting the flag wherever the cursor hides. Same one sweep per session, zero layout reads on every subsequent move, and no dependence on an event that may have fired before there was anything to measure.
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/lab/bench/infraby dispatching apointermovewith no precedingpointerenter:1— on, but painting nothing500px, 500px, 466px, 466px1Revert of #816
#816 moved the cursor variables to
document.documentElementand the active-chart marker to a module singleton, linking charts across containers. That was written for this bug and does not fix it — alignment was always the problem, and container scoping was never in the way. No route renders two linked containers at once (host-detail-chart.tsxonly mentions the hook in comments), so it bought nothing while widening every chart hover to the document element. Reverted to container scope.Kept from #816: the line goes from
bg-bordertobg-muted-foreground/45, which was a separate request — it was easy to lose against the grid.Need help on this PR? Tag
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