Bokeh - how to make HoverTool tooltips stick to points on click?

Question

The code below comes from a jupyter notebook:

from bokeh.io import show, output_notebook
from bokeh.plotting import ColumnDataSource, figure
from bokeh.models im         


        

Answer 1

This is a workaround creating your own Hover text using models.Label inside the 'callback' function of models.HoverTool . Also models.TapTool is used for toggle updating the Label text. You can't edit the text in the glyph models.Label, but an TextInput widget has been added where the text is updated as one hover the graph glyphs.

import bokeh
import bokeh.plotting
fig = bokeh.plotting.figure()

d_source = bokeh.models.ColumnDataSource({"left": [1,3,1],
                "bottom": [1,3,3],"right": [2,4,2],"top": [2,4,4]})
h_source = bokeh.models.ColumnDataSource({"do_hover":[True,True]  })
fig.quad(left="left", top="top", bottom="bottom", right="right",
         source=d_source)

myToolTip = bokeh.models.Label(x=2.5,y=2.5, text="",
                               background_fill_color = "#ffffff")

HoverCallback = bokeh.models.CustomJS(args=dict(d_source=d_source,
                    myToolTip=myToolTip,h_source=h_source),code="""
        function findWhereIam(x,y,s){
            // To find where the cursor is. 
            selection = -1;
            for (i = 0; i < s.data.left.length; i++) {
                x0 = s.data.left[i];
                x1 = s.data.right[i];
                y0 = s.data.bottom[i];
                y1 = s.data.top[i];
                if (x>x0 && xy0 && y=0){
                x0 = d_source.data.left[selection];
                x1 = d_source.data.right[selection];
                y0 = d_source.data.bottom[selection];
                y1 = d_source.data.top[selection];
                myToolTip.x = 0.5 * (x0+x1);
                myToolTip.y = 0.5 * (y0+y1);
                myToolTip.text = "on:"+selection;
                myToolTip.text_font_size = "24pt";
                myToolTip.background_fill_color = "#ffffff";
                myToolTip.border_line_color = "#000000";
                myToolTip.text_align = "center";
                myToolTip.trigger('change');

                current_selection.value = myToolTip.text;
                current_selection.trigger('change');
            }else{
                myToolTip.text = ""; //erase
                myToolTip.trigger('change');
                current_selection.value = myToolTip.text;
                current_selection.trigger('change');
            }
        }
    """)

TapCallback = bokeh.models.CustomJS(args=dict(h_source=h_source), code="""
        h_source.data.do_hover[0] = !h_source.data.do_hover[0];
    """)

current_selection = bokeh.models.widgets.TextInput(value="",
                                                   title="Selection")

HoverCallback.args.update(dict(current_selection=current_selection))

fig.add_tools(bokeh.models.HoverTool(tooltips=None,callback=HoverCallback))
fig.add_tools(bokeh.models.TapTool(callback=TapCallback))
fig.add_layout(myToolTip)
page = bokeh.plotting.gridplot([[fig],[current_selection]])
bokeh.io.output_notebook()
bokeh.io.show(page)