Circular gauges - The Gauge Control provides built-in presets for the following circular gauge types: Full, Three Quarters, Half, Quarter and Wide.
Gauge Scales - Depending on the preset you've selected, a gauge initially contains one or two scales. If you need more scales or if you are designing a Gauge from scratch, you can manually add a scale via the gauge's smart tag. Once scales have been created, you can click them to access their settings via the Properties window. This allows you to customize the following settings.
- Upper and lower scale limits
- Current value (can be bound to a data field)
- Major tick mark visibility, appearance, frequency and label text format
- Minor tick mark visibility, appearance and frequency
- Scale dimensions and position
Additional Elements - The following elements are available for current value indicators.
- Needles.
- Markers.
- Range bars (require an anchor value to be specified so that one end points to this value, while the other end points to the bound scale's current value).
- You can further enhance your gauge by adding the following elements:
- Freely-arranged text labels
- Spindle caps
- Embedded state indicator gauges
Linear Gauges - The Gauge Control provides built-in presets for horizontal and vertical Linear Gauges.
Gauge Scales - Depending on the preset you've selected, a gauge initially contains one or two scales. If you need more scales or if you are designing a Gauge from scratch, you can manually add a scale via the gauge's smart tag. Once scales have been created, you can click them to access their settings via the Properties window. This allows you to customize the following settings.
- Upper and lower scale limits
- Current value (can be bound to a data field)
- Major tick mark visibility, appearance, frequency and label text format
- Minor tick mark visibility, appearance and frequency
- Scale dimenstions and position
Additional Elements - The following elements are available for current value indicators.
- Level bars.
- Markers.
- Range bars (require an anchor value to be specified so that one end points to this value, while the other end points to the bound scale's current value).
- You can further enhance your gauge by adding the following elements:
- Freely-arranged text labels
- Embedded state indicator gauges
Digital Gauges - The Gauge Control provides four types of digital gauges: seven-segment, fourteen-segment, 5x8 matrix and 8x14 matrix. All digital gauge types ship with multiple themes.
DevExpress Digital Gauge controls provides the following digital gauge settings:
- The number of characters to be displayed
- Character spacing
- Customizable appearance for enabled and disabled segments
- Data field used to supply display text (in data-bound mode)
State Indicator Gauges - The following are just a few examples of state indicator gauges shipped with the Gauge Control.
- Process state indicators (e.g. traffic lights gauge).
- Value level indicators (e.g. smiley gauge).
- Clipart, allowing you to enhance your application usability by incorporating explanatory images (e.g. state flags or currency symbol gauges).
The main benefit of using State Indicator Gauges is that the DevExpress Gauge controls use vector graphics so that images will preserve their quality regardless of their current size which in turn saves you the trouble of adjusting images to the required control size or vice versa - adjusting controls so that they fit images. Once you start using DevExpress Gauges, you will never again worry about resizing issues when using resizable containers - state indicators are automatically resized with their parent control.
