Create a Property which shows the location of the right click for graphs and charts

[Samuel_S]

Currently we use the shortcut menu activation event to change properties of graphs and charts at Run Time, but it would be very useful to be able to figure out which section of the graph or chart the user clicked on so we can change just that portion without having to use pixel location. Having the ability to get the exact location of the mouse click and then react accordingly would be helpful. LabVIEW has this information stored somewhere because it changes the menus it shows based on the location, so we just need to make this visible natively to the users.

[tst]

Personally, I don't need this at all, but I'm pretty sure you can implement this today in a round about way - add a mouse down? event, which will give you the coords and the mouse button, and make sure that event is higher up in the list than the activation event, as I'm fairly sure that means that it will be processed first. This will allow you to get the click data first and then use that in the activation event.

If you're talking about data inside the graph, then the graph control should also have a method which converts coords to XY values.

[X.]

I'd love to have that. This would have saved me some time developing the two attached VIs...

As tst pointed out (thanks BTW), this Method should allow finding the targeted plot:

So useful but not too difficult to obtain...

[X.]

Actually, the Method above does not work in the case of a user-defined shortcut menu item. You do have to do the math. I'll post a VI to do that for the type of graph I use most (and am developing it for) at the link above...

[Darren]

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