Create impressively-styled, company-branded gauges for your applications with the WebGauge™.
Awesome 1
Styling a speedometer radial gauge with two scales (in this example, mi/h and km/h) with a night-sky blue glow is easy with the palette of colors, gradients, strokes, and brushes made available to you through the designer wizard.
Awesome 2
Radial gauges are composable with other gauges, such as the linear and digital gauge. When you assemble all of the elements that gauge has to offer, you can come up with some pretty professional-looking instruments that look like they have come out of the most futuristic concept car on the showroom floor.
Awesome 3
As you get up to speed with applying the radial gauge to the executive dashboards and data displays in your application, your users will appreciate the fine details of 3-D lighting, border detailing, and fine textures produced by the gauge's high performance, anti-aliased rendering routines.
Awesome 4
Black radial gauge with labels every 20 units, major tickmarks every 10 units, and minor tickmarks every 2 units, around the outer edge of the dial.
Basic Black 1
Black radial gauge with tick marks closer in, and fewer of them. Needles can appear in all shapes and sizes, as illustrated by the tie-shaped needle shown here.
Basic Black 2
Black radial gauge having fewer labels, it is easy to customize the frequency and formatting of label text.
Basic Black 3
Black radial gauge with a pointy triangular needle, and large clear numbers that are easy to read.
Basic Black 4
Black radial gauge illustrating the gauge's ability to show reflective highlights. Many real world instruments are behind glass or plastic, so this effect can be used to add photorealistic depth to your gauges.
Basic Black 5
Black radial gauge showing a more diffuse, matte lighting effect coming in from the top.
Basic Black 6
Black radial gauge again demonstrates lighting coming in from a top left angle. This time you will observe that the needle extends beyond the center point of the dial (in addition to having its pivot point offset from the center, as later Gallery shots will illustrate.)
Basic Black 7
Black radial gauge having complete circular (360 degree) freedom of movement.
Basic Black 8
The 360 degree movement afforded to you by the radial gauge allows you to employ the gauge in navigational applications, such as this compass illustrates.
Blue Compass
Speedometers are a common usage scenario for radial gauges in vehicular applications, and this blue speedometer showcases the gauge's composibility (this is a hybrid radial/digital gauge), photorealistic lighting effects, and value ranges that can be color coded for significance to the user.
Blue Speedometer
The innovative design-time experience of the WebGauge™ allows you to reposition the foci of an ellipse to form numerous non-circular radial gauge shapes (examples include rectangular, elliptical, fan-shaped or clamshell-shaped gauges) in a highly interactive fashion.
Once you have shaped your radial gauge, the new design wizard makes easy work of setting qualities such as needle shape, scales, labels, tick marks and brush colors, gradients and textures.
Clamshell Left
Radial gauge allows for a wide range of shapes and styles, including this icy glacier blue clamshell design that can be set by applying one of the gauge's many presets.
Clamshell Right
Since the radial gauge supports pointing to several values at one time, its needles can be used to simulate the hours, minutes and seconds hands of a clock face.
Clock (Black)
This radial gauge simulates a conventional white-faced clock with a photorealistic lighting effect.
Clock (White)
Radial gauges don't have to be circular, so if your application calls for a semicircular gauge then this gauge control can handle it. Non-circular radial gauges are also useful when the space constraints of your application cannot accommodate a circular gauge.
Half Circle 1
Semicircular radial gauges can benefit from lighting effects just like their round cousins.
Half Circle 2
Black radial gauge showing that you can use a dimple inset from the edge, instead of a needle, to depict knobs that you might find on the console of a sound studio mixer.
Knob 1
Radial gauge have considerable flexibility in the positioning and rotation around their pointer's pivot point, as shown in this more angular knob or dial.
Knob 2
Professionally-designed presets that accompany the radial gauge include this icy glacier blue style, tempering an almost gear-like knob that seems cool and mechanical.
Knob 3
Ranges can be styled anywher on the radial gauge, as was done in this illustration of a blue knob with striations beneath its value marker.
Knob 4
Liquid crystal display (or L.C.D.) appeared first in calculators and digital watches, before it began displacing bulky cathode ray tube (C.R.T.) monitors on the desktop. These original L.C.D. displays always had a certain look to them, that your application can readily capture with the gauge control.
L.C.D. Calculator
Digital gauge with a fusion blue preset applied which gives it a futuristic, almost nuclear-powered glow.
L.E.D. Blue
Digital gauge control with the fusion green preset applied giving it a viridescence that ordinary labels simply can't muster.
L.E.D. Green
Digital gauge with the fusion orange preset applied can warm-up any application with its phosphorescence.
L.E.D. Orange
In this close-up of the digital gauge, you can see how the additional segments of the 14-Segment L.E.D. enable it to better handle displaying alphanumeric values.
L.E.D. 14-Segment
Modest numeric or hexadecimal displays that seek the look and feel of the seven-segment L.E.D. displays popularized during the 1970s should use the digital gauge instead of a static label.
L.E.D. 7-Segment
Using the digital gauge to display a date as might be seen on a digital alarm clock. Its 14-Segment light emitting diode (L.E.D.) display mode enables it to show slash date separators.
L.E.D. Dates
Digital gauge displaying the time of day as might flash on the light emitting diode (L.E.D.) readout of a digital alarm clock or microwave oven.
L.E.D. Times
This horizontal linear gauge shows that the gauge can paint a scale in a continuous color gradient.
Prism
In this square radial gauge, you will observe that the font size for labels diminishes as the value increases. This subtle feature is actually controlled by the SpanMax property and the width of the label string. SpanMax settings direct the gauge to constrain all labels to the same size (regardless of how wide they may be.)
Span Maximum
This hybrid radial/digital gauge showcases the colorfulness that gauges can exhibit, in the form of a color-coded pH meter.
Spectrum
Radial gauges can take on a square shape, which makes no difference to their readings, but can allow them to fit into more "block" oriented interfaces.
Square
This horizontal linear gauge uses a bulbous endpoint on the left to simulate the appearance of a Fahrenheit thermometer's mercury bulb.
Thermometer - Linear
In this more stylized horizontal linear gauge, you see a thermometer having both a Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scale. The gauge control supports displaying more than one scale simultaneously.
Thermometer - Multi Scale
A stacked heat scale along this vertical, linear gauge for a Fahrenheit thermostat enhances its usability by mapping colors to temperatures (and their energy demands in terms of cooling a home).
Thermostat - Linear
Round gold thermostats were a stalwart presence in many homes constructed during the 50s and 60s in the U.S., and now they can be brought back to life using a hybrid radial/linear gauge like that shown here.
Thermostat - Radial
Radial gauge can combine multiple faces, such as the red and green face in this screen shot. You can use this to enhance the meaning of values on that side of the radial gauge.
Two Faces
Two value ranges in this red and black radial gauge demonstrate how the gauge can highlight those value ranges which are significant (for example, too high or too low for comfort).
Two Ranges
Radial gauges can display values on two (or more) separate scales simultaneously, allowing you to reuse the space taken by the gauge to present more than one piece of related information at a time. This radial gauge also demonstrates how a second radial gauge can appear separately inset with its own needle.
Two Scales
This radial gauge demonstrates styling the dial face with a corona effect like that seen during a solar eclipse.
Yellow Corona
This vertical linear gauge depicts smoothly-transitioning color zones coordinated with the value at each level.
Zoning