How to find the currently visible extents of the X axis

Hi Robert,

If you just wish to place an annotation on the chart at a relative coordinate (e.g. 20% along the visible XAxis), then please use AnnotationBase.CoordinateMode.

Annotation CoordinateMode

Gets or sets the AnnotationCoordinateMode to use when placing the annotation. E.g. the default of Absolute requires that X1,Y1 coordinates are data-values. The value of Relative requires that X1,Y1 are double values from 0.0 to 1.0

AnnotationCoordinateMode Enumeration

• Absolute, requires that coordinates X1,Y1,X2,Y2 are data-values
• Relative, requires that coordinates X1,Y1,X2,Y2 are double values between 0.0 and 1.0
• RelativeX, requires that coordinates X1,X2 are double values between 0.0 and 1.0, whereas Y1,Y2 are data-values
• RelativeY, requires that coordinates Y1,Y2 are double values between 0.0 and 1.0, whereas X1,X2 are data-values

For a detailed description of the Annotations API, please see our article Annotations are Easy!

Axis VisibleRanges

Alternatively, you can access which parts of the data are visible via the AxisBase.VisibleRange property.

• For a NumericAxis this is a Doublerange, which corresponds to data values
• For a DateTimeAxis this is a DateRange, which corresponds to data values
• For a TimeSpanAxis this is a TimeSpanRange, which corresponds to data values
• For a CategoryDateTimeAxis, this is an IndexRange, which corresponds to indices to data values.

Also, please see the Axis.VisibleRangeChanged event which is fired whenever the range changes.

Best regards,
Andrew