Adding additional support for events

Gday

I’ve been having a play with fitting out chart.js with some additional events, for example when a tooltip opens. I’ve got this working using a simple customevent however I wouldn’t say Im a big fan of this approach at the moment.

Currently someone would have to do something like below which is a bit clunky

		document.getElementById("canvas").addEventListener('tooltipOpened', {
                    console.log(e, e.detail);
               }, false);

I generally work with mapping libraries like leaflet.js which I think has a really neat way of handling events. They instead do something like

map.on('click', function(e) {
    alert(e.latlng);
});

Would you be supportive if I attempted to come up with something of an approach to eventing? Do you have any ideas on how you’d like to see this implemented?

Cheers Rowan

[rowanwins]

Gday @simonbrunel & @etimberg

So I’ve taken a first stab at a very simplistic event plugin.

There is also a demo available using the new tooltip events I have a pull request for, just open the console and you’ll see events being fired.

It’s very simple but I think it’s makes for a some quite usable events rather than jamming everything in in the initialisation of the chart.

Anyway needs lots of tidying up but I thought I’d check in first to make sure it’s heading in the right direction.

Cheers

[etimberg]

Closing since there was a plugin created to do this