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Create a "Cursor Location Edited" Event for Graphs with cursors

Status: New

Currently, if the user edits the X or Y position of a cursor, this doesn't fire any event (that I am aware of), while in effect is is equivalent to the user grabbing the cursor and instantaneously moving it to a new location.

There is a "Cursor Move", "Cursor Release" and a "Cursor Grab" event, as well as possibility to catch the user selection of a cursor contextual menu event such as "Bring to Center".

It is possible to check whether the user 

 

My suggestion: Add a "Cursor Location Edited" event for Graphs with cursors

 

3 Comments
johnsold
Knight of NI

Would "Cursor Location: Value Changed" be a better choice for the name? This would be consisent with other value changes and might be able to reuse somoe of the underlying code.

 

Lynn

crossrulz
Knight of NI

I would think it should just be handled by the Cursor Move event.


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Whatever the solution is (I am fine indeed with a user editing the coordinate triggering a Cursor Move event), this would be a headache saver.