Programmatically Creating DrawLineItem Error Null Handles Exception

[jzarech]

I'm adding DrawLineItems to the Lines collection and that's fine --

Until the chart tries to refresh and throws an exception because all the "Handles" fields such as EndHandle, MidlleBottomHandle, MiddleTopHandle, and Starthandle are Null so a NullReferenceException is thrown.

My question is how to either populate the Handle values or avoid the exception when programmatically adding DrawLineItems to a .Net TeeChart?

Error

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My populate code:

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Null "Handle's" in DrawLineItems

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Also when I add the line to the DrawLines Lines collection it doesn't throw the newline event like when I draw the line on the screen by hand with the mouse.

Thanks for your help.

Joseph

[Christopher]

Hello Joseph,

I think the reason is that you are using the parameterless constructor of DrawLineItem, which means that EndHandle will throw an error (following code is from the sourcecode):

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        public Rectangle EndHandle
        {
            get
            {
                return RectangleFromPoint(tool.AxisPoint(EndPos));
            }
        }

It will throw an error because the tool variable is null - this is the parameter you can pass in the other constructor of DrawLineItem, e.g.

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        private void InitializeChart(TChart chart)
        {
            chart.Series.Add(typeof(Line)).FillSampleValues();

            var drawLine = new DrawLine(chart.Chart);

            var item = new DrawLineItem(drawLine); //<-- pass in the 'tool' here
            item.Pen.Width = 3;
            item.Pen.Color = Color.Red;
            item.StartPos = new PointDouble(1, 1);
            item.EndPos = new PointDouble(3, chart.Series[0].YValues.Maximum);

            drawLine.Lines.Add(item);
        }

[jzarech]

Christopher - u r correct! I feel dumb for missing the constructor that takes the drawline object as a param.

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Thanks soooooo much!!!

[Christopher]

Hello Joseph!

Thanks soooooo much!!!

You are very welcome! Don't forget that debugging such issues is considerably easier with the source code