Converting between pixels and data values

[Phrogz]

Given a chart inside a position:relative container, I’m (successfully) using the following code to convert between pixel coordinates and data values, and back again. Is there a better way than this reaching into the internals?

// pxCoord: {x:pxX, y:pxY}
// returns: {x:dataX, y:dataY}
function pxToData(chart, pxCoord) {
    const x = chart.axisX[0], y = chart.axisY[0]
    return {
        x : (pxCoord.x - x.bounds.x1) * (x.dataInfo.max - x.dataInfo.min)/(x.bounds.x2 - x.bounds.x1),
        y : (pxCoord.y - x.bounds.y1) * (y.dataInfo.max - y.dataInfo.min) / (y.bounds.y1 - y.bounds.y2)
    }
}

// dataCoord: {x:dataX, y:dataY}
// returns:   {x:pxX, y:pxY}
function dataToPx(chart, dataCoord) {
    const x = chart.axisX[0], y = chart.axisY[0]
    return {
        x : dataCoord.x * (x.bounds.x2 - x.bounds.x1) / (x.dataInfo.max - x.dataInfo.min) + x.bounds.x1,
        y : dataCoord.y * (y.bounds.y1 - y.bounds.y2) / (y.dataInfo.max - y.dataInfo.min) + y.bounds.y2
    }
}

• This topic was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by Phrogz. Reason: Trying to fix formatting

[Thangaraj Raman]

@phrogz,

You can use the convertValueToPixel method to get the pixel coordinate for a given value along the axis. Similarly, you can use the convertPixelToValue method to get the value along the axis for a particular pixel coordinate.

—
Thangaraj Raman
Team CanvasJS

[Phrogz]

Thank you, Thangaraj! That’s exactly what I was looking for. I missed it in the docs.