Custom Draw Events

• Apr 01, 2018

This documents explains how to use the custom draw feature to change the appearance of chart series, series point, crosshair cursor and axis labels.

Overview

The Chart Control for WinForms introduces the following events allowing you to modify the default drawing settings before the control draws its content.

• ChartControl.CustomDrawSeries
• ChartControl.CustomDrawSeriesPoint
• ChartControl.CustomDrawCrosshair
• ChartControl.CustomDrawAxisLabel

The following images show the difference between custom drawn charts and those drawn by default. In the custom drawn chart, each legend marker of a series point contains the photo of a person whose sales statistics are shown.

The draw type	The resulting image
The default draw
The custom series draw

Examples

For more information about custom draw events use, refer to the following examples.

• How to: Custom Draw Series
• How to: Custom Draw Series Points
• How to: Custom Draw a Crosshair Cursor