cellHover fires for every column in row?

[jerradeParticipant]

I have a function assigned to the cellhover property of my grid. When I hover over a cell, the function is called multiple times, apparently once for every column in the grid. Is this because the selectionmode is “singlerow”? When I hover over a cell, the entire row is highlighted, but that doesn’t mean that every cell should be considered hovered over. I can’t think of a scenario where that behavior would be useful. In addition, the cellhover function isn’t called when hovering over different cells in the same row. It’s only called when a different row is hovered over. Is this by design, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

[jerradeParticipant]

Here’s an example of the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/jerrade/cgtdzuya/1/
What I’m trying to accomplish is to display a jqxTooltip for a particular column. It would work if cellhover wasn’t acting so strange.

[ivailoParticipant]

Hi jerrade,

Yes, this is default behavior.
Please use selectionmode: 'singlecell', if you want only one call of your function.

Best Regards,
Ivailo Ivanov

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

[jerradeParticipant]

Can you describe a scenario in which this would be desired behavior? Why would you ever want the cellhover function to fire for a bunch of cells that were not hovered over?

selectionmode: 'singlecell' works for my tooltip purpose, but it isn’t ideal because I don’t really want individual cells to be selectable. Frankly, I’m not sure why “selection” and “hover” aren’t two completely separate concepts.

[ivailoParticipant]

Hi jerrade,

In row selection mode, all cells are hovered when you hover the row.
That’s the reason cellhover is raised for each cell.

Best Regards,
Ivailo Ivanov

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

[jerradeParticipant]

I understand that. I just don’t understand why anyone would ever want that. It sounds like a bug to me. To me, “hover” is a mouse-related concept, not a display concept. Just because the entire row is highlighted (which is a display concept), doesn’t mean that every cell in the row is hovered over. I think a separate rowhover event would make more sense, inside which you could iterate over the columns if you wanted to access them for whatever reason.

[jerradeParticipant]

I’m not trying to be difficult or beat a dead horse here, but if you have

 
     cellhover: function(tableCell, x, y)
     {
        var cell = $('#jqxgrid').jqxGrid('getcellatposition', x, y);
     	console.log(tableCell);
        console.log(cell.column + ' x:' + x + ', y:' + y);
     }

, this gets called for each cell in the row. The cell.column, x, and y values are the same for each call (the actual cell that is hovered over), but tableCell is different for each call. How does that make sense?

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