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How to clear a selection from a Bokeh plot?

I use selection in a figure to drive my Bokeh server application. However after the user selects something I don't actually want that selection to have any visual effect on the figure. How can I remove the selection effects?

I can imagine two ways of solving this, but am having trouble getting either to work:

  1. Remove the selection in the callback

    def cb(attr, old, new):
    source.selected.indices.clear()
    ...

source.on_change('selected', cb)

  2. Keep the selected indices, but remove any styling difference between them. I found this:

    http://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/styling.html#selected-and-unselected-glyphs

    but wasn't sure how to effectively apply this to my problem.

Solution

  • Selection/non-selection glyphs can be either disabled or use the main glyph, e.g.:

    r = plot.scatter(...)
r.selection_glyph = None
r.nonselection_glyph = None

    or

    r = plot.scatter(...)
r.selection_glyph = r.glyph
r.nonselection_glyph = r.glyph