Interactive figure overflows column in two column mode

[abostroem]

The interactive figure box is spanning almost 2 columns (see attached screenshot) when using the following command to add an animation to my manuscript (using aastex 6.3).

\begin{figure}
    \begin{interactive}{animation}{BPASS_3d.mp4} %animation
    \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{binary_star_upper_lim_3d.pdf} %preview
    \end{interactive}
    \caption{An animated version of this figure is available...}
    \label{fig:3d}
\end{figure}

[augustfly]

Yeah, I think this is a bug in the internal function \highlightfigure. The line that reads \textwidth should use \columnwidth instead. I'm not even sure that is going to work perfectly given the hacky way this is written.

AASTeX60/cls/aastex63.cls

Lines 5810 to 5815 in d59c29e

	\long\def\highlightfigure#1{\centerline{
	\fboxrule=4pt
	\fboxsep=12pt
	\fcolorbox{ltblue}{white}{\hbox to
	.93\textwidth{\hss$\vcenter{\advance\hsize -24pt #1}$\hss}}
	}}

should be changed to

\long\def\highlightfigure#1{\centerline{
\fboxrule=4pt
\fboxsep=12pt
\fcolorbox{ltblue}{white}{\hbox to
.93\columnwidth{\hss$\vcenter{\advance\hsize -24pt #1}$\hss}}
}}

[abostroem]

I can confirm that this change fixed the issue for me

[abostroem]

However, out of curiosity I tested figure* and the one columnwidth blue box is now centered in the middle of two columns overlapping with the two column figure. This probably needs a more robust workaround to make both work

[augustfly]

@abostroem exactly right! thank you for reporting this and testing that alternate (failed) use case.