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How to: Provide Interactive Editing for Series Points

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This example describes how to make points in a ChartControl adjustable interactively. The key principals of this example include handling the ChartControl.ObjectHotTracked event and using the XYDiagram2D.PointToDiagram method to convert physical coordinates of the mouse to logical.

using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.XtraCharts;
// ...

static int lastY = -1;
static bool isPressed = false;
static SeriesPoint selectedPoint = null;

private void chartControl1_ObjectHotTracked(object sender, HotTrackEventArgs e) {
    if(e.HitInfo.SeriesPoint != null)
        selectedPoint = e.HitInfo.SeriesPoint;

    if(selectedPoint != null && isPressed) {
        DiagramCoordinates point = 
            ((XYDiagram)(sender as ChartControl).Diagram).PointToDiagram(e.HitInfo.HitPoint);

        if(lastY != -1) {
            AxisRange range = ((XYDiagram)(sender as ChartControl).Diagram).AxisY.Range;
            double delta = ((double)range.MaxValue - (double)range.MinValue) / 8;

            if(selectedPoint.Values[0] >= (double)range.MaxValue - delta)
                range.MaxValue = selectedPoint.Values[0] + delta;

            selectedPoint.Values[0] = point.NumericalValue;

            if(point.QualitativeArgument != "")
                selectedPoint.Argument = point.QualitativeArgument;
        }

        ((ChartControl)sender).RefreshData();
        lastY = e.HitInfo.HitPoint.Y;
        return;
    }

    lastY = -1;
}

private void chartControl1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
    isPressed = true;
}

private void chartControl1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
    isPressed = false;
}

private void chartControl1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    isPressed = false;
}
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