"turn off" the brush?

[jerome cukier]

Hi,
so I get the idea of how to create a brush and use brushstart/brush/
brushend to do wonderful things with the selection.
On another thread there was a discussion that brushes preempts all
other mouse events.
so is there a way to turn off brushing, ie to revert an element to
before .call(brush) was used?
cheers
jerome

[Mike Bostock]

You could remove the brush element (e.g., selectAll(".brush").remove),
or you could select it and set the style display: none or
pointer-events: none.

Mike

[Mike Travers]

Hi, I'm trying to address the same issue (I have a scatter matrix, and I would like to put titles on the points that popup on hover, but the brush control interferes with that).

I have found that there are no elts of class "brush", but there are of class "background". This:

  d3.selectAll(".background").style("pointer-events", "none")

Seems to almost do the trick, but the brush controls are left in a weird half-working state.

Advice appreciated, I don't really understand the event model well enough to tell what is going on.

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[marc fawzi]

Hmm. I think this is may be the same issue I'm having with a stacked area. When I place custom tooltips by adding title element to each path the tooptip pops up on an area much large than that covered by the path... or maybe that's a different problem 

[Mike Bostock]

You typically specify the "brush" class (or whatever class you prefer) when you add the brush. If you don't specify a class, then there won't be any elements with that class.

Mike