Datatips appear to be broken for geoscatter plots in 2024a

I am trying to get datatips to work on a geoscatter plot.

They almost do. I can hover over any portion of the graph and the hover over gives the correct infomation.

However, if I left click, use the datatip function or call datatip from the command line it places a black marker slightly offset from where it should be an shows no information.

I tried modifying the datatip template and that works correctly for hover over but I still cannot get a datatip to show up correctly in any other way. I took a screen shot below, the visible datatip is a hover over, the block dots below are what happens if I left click on a hover over or try to add a datatip by typing datatiip(scatter_object) at the prompt.

[Ashutosh Thakur]

Hi Nathan,

Can you provide some sample code in which this issue can be reproduced?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Gayathri]

Hi @Nathan Gustavson,

I was able to reproduce the issue in MATLAB R2024a, where the "datatip" does not appear exactly at the cursor click position, but instead shows up with an offset. I tested the same “geoscatter” plot in MATLAB R2024b Prerelease Update 3, and it is working fine. I am hopeful that this fix will also be present in the upcoming MATLAB R2024b stable release.

You can download the MATLAB R2024b Prerelease version from the below link.

https://www.mathworks.com/downloads/prerelease

The "datatip" is also being placed properly in MATLAB R2023b.

[Nathan Gustavson]

Thank you for following up on this, hopefully this makes it into the next release.

Having a company that follows through with details like this is really what makes a software company strong in my eyes.