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D3.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   D3.js Quick Start Guide Create amazing, interactive visualizations in the browser with JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342383
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matthew Huntington Matthew Huntington
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with D3.js 2. Using SVG to Create Images Using Code FREE CHAPTER 3. Building an Interactive Scatter Plot 4. Making a Basic Scatter Plot Interactive 5. Creating a Bar Graph Using a Data File 6. Animating SVG Elements to Create an Interactive Pie Chart 7. Using Physics to Create a Force-Directed Graph 8. Mapping 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Updating click points after a transform

Try zooming and panning and then clicking on the SVG to create a new run. You'll notice it's in the wrong place. That's because the SVG click handler has no idea that a zoom or pan has happened. Currently, if you click on the visual point, no matter how much you may have zoomed or panned, the click handler still converts it as if you had never zoomed or panned.

When we zoom, we need to save the transformation information to a variable so that we can use it later to figure out how to properly create circles and runs. Find the zoomCallback declaration and add var lastTransform = null right before it. Then add lastTransform = d3.event.transform; to the beginning of the function declaration. It should look as follows:

var lastTransform = null; //add this
var zoomCallback = function(){
lastTransform = d3.event.transform; //add...
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