What inspired this wish list request?
I understand that the devs were trying to fix the issue of un-selected data points being drawn above selected data points, but they took the lazy fix and just clobbered any hope of having the user determine the draw order. Now selected points are drawn above everything else. I'm almost surprised that the mouse is drawn above selected data points.
What is the improvement you would like to see?
Why is this idea important?
Consider this graph:
Here I might want to highlight a specific item by selecting it in the legend. When I do, the dense data points completely obscure EVERY SPLINE, even though the splines are drawn as separate scripts AFTER the marker segs.
This is just one example. In my org it is common to have many thousands or even hundreds of thousands of data points. Drawing some sort of custom summary graphic above the data points (whether it's splines, goal lines, confidence intervals, or any other such custom graphic) is needed for properly consuming the data. With JMP14 and beyond, this becomes totally useless for interactivity, since selecting items (and the associated data points) completely obscures EVERY and ALL other graphics drawn on the graph.
And while my org is slow to update to new JMP versions (as many are still using JMP12), I'm left telling people that it's impossible with the new versions of JMP to have the same workflow as before. Instead of being faster with better features, we're left with something completely useless.
And while I do understand that a user can simply deselect the rows (say by clicking a single data point), this type of work-around to a fundamentally bad design decision by the JMP devs should not be necessary, and is not always acceptable (and also changes the visual story / significance):
From my perspective this is so egregiously bad that JMP should provide a hot-fix and patch all users systems in JMP14 and beyond, not wait till JMP18 to fix.
