Disable just hover interactivity (but preserve dataTip on click)

In R2020a (Update 4), is there a way to disable the appearance of data tips upon hover, but still allow them to appear when a point on a plot is clicked?

I've read the dataTipInteraction docs pretty carefully, but the description there makes it sound like all three triggers (hover, click, tap) are lumped together—I don't see a way to disable them individually. This is frankly a bit maddening, since I don't want or need to see a sequence of data tip popups[1] as I move the cursor across a figure window enroute to clicking on a particular point of interest. I just want them to appear when I click on the point. I already experimented with enabling/disabling the default interactivity for a given set of axes—but as with the description to which I linked above, this seems to affect all interactions together. Is it the case that hover, click and tap are lumped together by design? Or am I just being obtuse?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

-AMM

[1] Sluggishly rendered, at that—and despite following Yair Altman's detailed writeup on this pretty carefully, I don't see any noticeable speed improvement at all. They're still dog-slow, and this is on a MacBook Pro with 8GB of memory running Mojave (10.14.6), with Source Control Integration disabled and the Java Heap Memory increased to 1GB (default is 768 MB).

Answer 1

[Nidhi Mittal]

Hi AMM,

You can disable the appearance of data tips upon hover using disableDefaultInteractivity(ax) .

This functionality is available in 2018b and later releases.

Thanks,

Nidhi Mittal

[AMM]

Hi Nidhi,

Perhaps I wasn't concise enough in my original post. If you re-read my question carefully, you'll see that:

1. I included an explicit link (under the word "disabling") to the exact function you now suggest; and
2. As the title of my post states, I am interested in disabling only the show-on-hover dataTips. Your suggestion disables all interactions; as I wrote, "this seems to affect all interactions together." This is not what I want.

Or did I misunderstand you?

Thanks,

-AMM