Highcharts - SetState (inactive) not working after redraw - highcharts

Question

Consider the following toy example: jsfiddle
chart: {
events: {
render: myfunc
}
},
...
function myfunc() {
var chart = this;
chart.series.forEach(function(s) {
s.setState('inactive', true);
});
chart.series[0].setState('hover');
}
The intended behavior is to set the state of the first series as hover while setting all other series as inactive after load and redraw events.
The code works as intended after load
However, it doesn't work after redraw (via the select box). After selecting an option in the box, the series are rendered as normal instead of as inactive UNLESS any series had been previously hovered. That is, the code works if you interact with any series AND THEN select an option in the box, but it doesn't work if you select an option in the box immediately after the loading without interacting on the series.
Surprisingly, after some inspection in the console, I noted that in any case the intended states are properly passed to the series object. So, why the states are not properly rendered?
*NOTE: In my actual application the hovered series is not necessarily the first one, but it varies depending on the output of other function. I'm aware that "myfunc" could be simplified in the current example, but for general purposes please suggest an answer keeping the basic structure if possible.

Answer 1

This seems to be related to this issue from HighChart's GitHub. In your case, HighCharts is correctly updating the series' state. However, while rendering it fails to set the proper opacity value associated with the 'inactive' state. The workaround is to explicitly set the opacity of the series to the same value it should have in the 'inactive' state.
// F U N C T I O N S E T S T A T E
function myfunc() {
var chart = this;
chart.series.forEach(function(s) {
//explicit opacity
s.opacity = 0.2;
s.setState('inactive', true);
});
chart.series[0].setState('hover');
}

Answer 2

Thank you for sharing this issue, it seems that it is a regression after the last release.
In the previous version it used to work fine: https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/Lbpvdwam/
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/8.1.0/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/8.1.0/highcharts-more.js"></script>
I reported it on Highcharts Github issue channel where you can follow this thread: https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/issues/13719
If you don't need any new features/bugfixes use the previous version as a temporary workaround.