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Hi,

I am trying out SciChart, and so far I am impressed about the performance and capabilities.

For my application I need to have a cursor showing the X and Y values of the current data point. The RolloverModifier seems to be a good start, but at some points i need other behaviour:

1. I need the cursor to only move when the mouse button is down. So
   you can zoom/pan the graph, with the cursor remaining on the same
   data point.
2. I need the cursor to move to the next/previous data
   point on a keypress (Keys.Left and Keys.Right).

The exapmle “Custom ChartModifiers – Part 2 – Custom ZoomPanModifier and Zooming on KeyPress” seems to be a good start, where the OnAttached() method of a SimpleZoomInOutModifier class, derived from ChartModifierBase, is overridden to get access to keypress events:

    public override void OnAttached()
    {
        base.OnAttached();
        var scichart = ((SciChartSurface)ParentSurface);

        var mainWindow = FindLogicalParent(scichart);

        mainWindow.PreviewKeyDown -= SciChart_PreviewKeyDown;
        mainWindow.PreviewKeyDown += SciChart_PreviewKeyDown;
    }

    private T FindLogicalParent(SciChartSurface scichart) where T:class
    {
        var parent = (FrameworkElement)scichart.Parent;
        while (parent != null)
        {
            var candidate = parent as T;
            if (candidate != null) return candidate;

            parent = (FrameworkElement)parent.Parent;
        }

        return null;
    }

But the function FindLogicalParent() gives compiler errors, and in the downloaded code for this exaple application, this method isn’t even there… the method OnAttached() in the downloaded code is:

    public override void OnAttached()
    {
        base.OnAttached();
        var scichart = ((SciChartSurface)ParentSurface);

        scichart.PreviewKeyDown -= SciChart_PreviewKeyDown;
        scichart.PreviewKeyDown += SciChart_PreviewKeyDown;
    }

But this code doesn’t work. The SciChart_PreviewKeyDown eventhandler is never called.

How to move forward?