MAIDR Documentation - v4.4.0
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    Class TreemapTrace

    Trace implementation for treemaps and any other hierarchy laid out as area.

    A treemap encodes a tree as nested rectangles whose area is a magnitude. Every other trace in MAIDR is a flat grid, and a tree read as one loses the only thing the chart is drawn to show: a list of thirty leaves says nothing about which three of them make up most of Europe.

    The tree navigates as a tree, on the arrow keys that already exist. Up returns to the parent, down enters the first child, left and right walk the siblings -- the file-manager interaction, which is the one a reader already has. No new command, no new keybinding: a node's address is (depth, index-at-that-depth), and MovableGraph already navigates an arbitrary graph over such addresses. Siblings are linked to each other and nothing else, so left and right stay inside one parent; a cousin is reached by going up, across and back down, which is what the tree structure means.

    This is a chart a non-visual reading can do better than a visual one. A sighted reader compares areas by eye and is poor at it -- that is the standing criticism of the form. A reader given the tree is told each node's exact share of its parent, which is the comparison the rectangles are drawn to support and the one the eye estimates worst.

    The hierarchy is declared as a path, never as a parent pointer. A path is acyclic by construction and cannot be orphaned: a node whose ancestors are named is placed, and there is no id to dangle. Producers all have it -- a d3.hierarchy walk yields it directly, and Plotly's labels/parents pair resolves to it -- and it is also the breadcrumb, so the reader is told where they are out of the same field that put them there.

    Interior nodes need not be declared. A layer that emits only its leaves -- which is what a treemap draws -- gets its interior nodes and their totals derived. A layer that declares them keeps the declared numbers, since a parent may carry mass of its own that no child accounts for, and a total that disagrees with the sum of its children is a fact about the data rather than an error to correct.

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    Constructors

    Properties

    observers: Observer<TraceState>[]
    isWarning: boolean
    isComputingStateAt: boolean

    True while AbstractTrace.getStateAt computes state at a temporarily moved cursor. Enforces (structurally, not just by documentation) that state getters never notify observers.

    id: string
    type: TraceType
    title: string
    name: string | undefined

    What this layer is, when the producer named it. See MaidrLayer.name.

    xAxis: string
    yAxis: string
    z: string
    navigationService: NavigationService
    layer: MaidrLayer
    supportsExtrema: false

    The go-to-extrema dialog -- the list of named targets a trace offers under g -- which a tree has none of. Every node is already one step from its parent and its siblings, and the largest leaf is named in the description.

    It has to be false rather than merely unimplemented. getExtremaTargets defaults to [] while the toggle command gates only on this flag, so a true here switches the reader into the GO_TO_EXTREMA scope, renders an empty dialog, and leaves the arrow keys answering to a keymap that is no longer the tree's -- a keyboard trap whose only exit is a binding the help menu does not list. navigateToExtrema throws in the same case.

    Unrelated to moveToExtreme, the Ctrl+arrow jump out to the branch root or in to the deepest descendant: that runs through the movable and is unaffected by this flag.

    movable: MovableGraph
    highlightValues: SVGElement[][] | null

    Accessors

    • get isInitialEntry(): boolean

      Returns boolean

    • set isInitialEntry(value: boolean): void

      Parameters

      • value: boolean

      Returns void

    • get row(): number

      Returns number

    • set row(value: number): void

      Parameters

      • value: number

      Returns void

    • get col(): number

      Returns number

    • set col(value: number): void

      Parameters

      • value: number

      Returns void

    • get isEmptyAtCursor(): boolean

      Whether the cursor has no point to report.

      Read from dimension rather than from any one trace's data, because that is the one shape every trace already answers in. It is also evaluated at the cursorLineTrace returns the current series' length as cols — so this covers a ragged layer, where one series has points and another has none, and not only a layer that is empty throughout.

      Returns boolean

      True when there is nothing at (row, col) to describe

    • get state(): TraceState

      Gets the current state of the trace including audio, braille, text, and highlight information.

      Returns TraceState

      The current TraceState

    • get outOfBoundsState(): TraceEmptyState

      The state pushed to observers when navigation leaves the data.

      Declared as TraceEmptyState rather than the whole TraceState union because that is what every implementation actually returns — the accessor exists so AbstractPlot.notifyOutOfBounds has an empty state to push. Narrowing it here is what lets the braille and highlight callers hand the value straight on: those states accept the empty trace shape but not a populated one, so a wider declaration would force each of them to cast, and a cast is exactly what stops the compiler from noticing if an override ever starts returning a populated state.

      Returns TraceEmptyState

      The empty trace state, positioned for out-of-bounds audio panning.

    • get hasMultiPoints(): boolean

      Returns boolean

    • get traceType(): TraceType

      The trace's chart type. Lightweight alternative to reading state.traceType, which eagerly computes the full audio/braille/text/ highlight state just to expose this one string.

      Returns TraceType

    • get values(): number[][]

      Returns number[][]

    Methods

    • Gets safe row and column indices to prevent accessing undefined values

      Returns { row: number; col: number }

      Object with safe row and column indices

    • Base implementation of navigation in HIGHER and LOWER modes of ROTOR, default is no-op Needs to be implemented in Line, Bar, Heatmap, Candlestick

      Parameters

      • _direction: "left" | "right" | "up" | "down"
      • _type: "lower" | "higher"

      Returns boolean

    • Parameters

      • a: number

        Utility function to compare point values for rotor functionality

      • b: number
      • type: "lower" | "higher"

      Returns boolean

      boolean value

    • Moves up in rotor mode, optionally filtering by lower or higher values.

      Parameters

      • Optional_mode: "lower" | "higher"

        Optional mode for filtering (lower or higher)

      Returns boolean

      Error always - subclasses must override this method

    • Moves down in rotor mode, optionally filtering by lower or higher values.

      Parameters

      • Optional_mode: "lower" | "higher"

        Optional mode for filtering (lower or higher)

      Returns boolean

      Error always - subclasses must override this method

    • Moves left in rotor mode, optionally filtering by lower or higher values.

      Parameters

      • Optional_mode: "lower" | "higher"

        Optional mode for filtering (lower or higher)

      Returns boolean

      Error always - subclasses must override this method

    • Moves right in rotor mode, optionally filtering by lower or higher values.

      Parameters

      • Optional_mode: "lower" | "higher"

        Optional mode for filtering (lower or higher)

      Returns boolean

      Error always - subclasses must override this method

    • Returns true if this trace supports compare (lower/higher value) navigation. Override to false for trace types that don't use compare modes (e.g., scatter, which is all we currently have).

      Returns boolean

    • Returns the display name for the default data navigation mode. Override to provide a trace-specific name (e.g., "ROW AND COLUMN NAVIGATION" for scatter).

      Returns string

    • Cleans up trace resources including values and highlighted SVG elements.

      Only removes elements MAIDR created (hidden clones, synthetic markers); traces that highlight the chart's original live elements in place (e.g. heatmap cells, line dots) merely drop their references so the visible chart geometry survives focusout and live-data rebuilds.

      Returns void

    • Get all highlight SVG elements for this trace Used by HighlightService for high contrast mode

      Returns SVGElement[]

      Array of all SVG elements, or empty array if none

    • Get all original (visible) SVG elements for this trace. These are the actual rendered elements, not the hidden clones used for highlighting. Used by HighlightService for high contrast mode color changes.

      Returns SVGElement[]

      Array of all original SVG elements, or empty array if none

    • Computes the trace state at an arbitrary position without moving the user's cursor or notifying observers. Used by monitor mode to sonify and announce a newly appended point while the user stays put.

      The state getters read this.row/this.col internally, so the cursor is moved temporarily and always restored in a finally block — this method is the single owner of that pattern.

      Re-entrancy hazard: this is only safe because the entire call chain is synchronous (no await points), so timers (e.g. autoplay ticks) cannot interleave before the finally-restore, and state getters never notify observers. If a getter ever becomes async or triggers notifications, callers could observe the temporary cursor.

      Parameters

      • row: number

        The row of the position to compute state for

      • col: number

        The column of the position to compute state for

      Returns TraceState

      The trace state at the requested position

    • Returns a human-readable label for this trace's chart type (e.g., 'Bar Chart', 'Scatter Plot') for display in the description modal. Falls back to the raw layer type if no mapping is registered.

      Returns string

    • Builds the axes object for the description state, including z only when the layer explicitly provides a z-axis label. Subclasses should call this instead of constructing the axes object inline so charts without a real z dimension don't surface the placeholder default.

      Returns { x?: string; y?: string; z?: string }

    • Returns true if this trace supports intersection navigation mode. Opt-in per trace type: override to return true (possibly conditionally, e.g. based on data shape) for trace types that expose point intersections between series. Intersection navigation is a trace-level capability — it has no meaning at the figure or subplot level, which is why it lives on AbstractTrace rather than AbstractPlot.

      Returns boolean

    • Returns true if this trace supports point-by-point navigation mode. Opt-in per trace type: override to return true for traces that expose individual data points navigable in reading order (left/right) and column-major order (up/down). Currently only ScatterTrace.

      Returns boolean

    • Notifies the trace that the rotor is entering or leaving INTERSECTION_MODE. Default is a no-op; line-style traces don't need to track mode state because their state output is unchanged by the rotor mode. Traces whose audio/text output differs in intersection mode (e.g. ScatterTrace, which normally plays the whole x-column as a chord and must instead focus a single point) override this to flip an internal flag.

      Parameters

      • _enabled: boolean

        True when entering intersection mode, false when leaving.

      Returns void

    • Moves the active point to the pointer location and returns directional guidance toward the nearest data geometry in a single call.

      Combining both operations avoids running findNearestPoint twice per pointermove event — important on dense plots where the scan is the hot path.

      Parameters

      • x: number

        Screen-space x position of the pointer/finger

      • y: number

        Screen-space y position of the pointer/finger

      Returns PointerGuidanceState | null

      Guidance state relative to nearest point, or null when unavailable

    • Moves the trace to the nearest point when the pointer is within its bounds and the trace is not already focused on that point.

      onCurve is intentionally non-optional: the caller has already paid the cost of isPointInBounds to assemble guidance state, and forcing subclasses to accept the value makes the contract explicit so a future override cannot silently recompute (or worse, ignore) it.

      Subclasses override this to customise hover-driven navigation:

      • Box / ViolinBox no-op the move while still surfacing guidance.
      • Scatter switches into column navigation mode before delegating.

      Parameters

      Returns void

    • Checks if the specified coordinates are within bounds of the element.

      Parameters

      • x: number

        The x-coordinate

      • y: number

        The y-coordinate

      • element: NearestPoint

        Object containing the SVG element and its position

        • element: SVGElement
        • row: number
        • col: number
        • centerX: number
        • centerY: number

      Returns boolean

      True if the point is in bounds, false otherwise

    • Offers a walk along the whole level, across parents.

      The arrow keys stay the tree: left and right are siblings, and a step past the last child of a parent is refused rather than landing in a cousin's subtree unannounced. That is the right default and it is what makes this a hierarchy rather than a grid -- but it is not the only reading anyone wants. An icicle is drawn as depth-ordered bands, a whole row of blocks per level, and "everything at this depth, in layout order" is a question that reading asks directly.

      So the band goes on the rotor rather than on the arrows. One data model with two different arrow semantics, chosen by which layout the producer happened to pick, would be worse for a reader who meets both than one semantics plus an explicit mode.

      Withheld on a level of one, where it could only ever answer "none found".

      Returns readonly RotorFilterUnit[]

      The level unit alongside whatever else is offered

    • Moves within an active rotor filter unit along the filtered axis.

      Called by RotorNavigationService when the current rotor mode is one of this trace's getRotorFilterUnits. Filter units navigate a single axis, so only left/right are dispatched here — the service announces up/down as unavailable without calling the model (matching intersection mode). Implementations should move to the nearest point matching the unit identified by key and notify observers, returning true; when no such point exists they should call notifyRotorBounds and return false.

      Default is a no-op that reports bounds, so a trace advertising a filter unit but forgetting to implement movement fails safe (announces "no point found") rather than moving unexpectedly.

      Parameters

      • key: string
      • direction: "left" | "right"

      Returns boolean

      True if the cursor moved, false otherwise