It is probably enough to implement:

Qt Code:
  1. virtual void AnalogPlotData::setRectOfInterest( const QRectF &rect )
  2. {
  3. // rect is the visible area in scale coordinates - the scales the corresponding curve is attached to.
  4.  
  5. ...
  6. }
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In Qwt 6.0 it gets called automatically when using Qwt from SVN trunk only when the QwtPlotItem::ScaleInterest flag is set.

HTH,
Uwe

PS: internally QwtSyntheticPointData uses this hook too