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Configuring the Scale (UltraRadialGauge)

Purpose

This topic provides a conceptual overview of the UltraRadialGauge™ control’s scale. It describes the properties of the scale and also provides an example of how to implement it.

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Topic Purpose

This section gives you an overview of the UltraRadialGauge™ control and its main features.

This topic explains using a code example how to add the UltraRadialGauge™ control to a Windows Forms application.

In this topic

This topic contains the following sections:

Scale Overview

Scale overview

Used to represent the values of the gauge visually, a scale defines a range of values in the UltraRadialGauge control. The tick marks and ranges are all the elements that can be added to a scale.

Preview

The following image is a preview of the UltraRadialGauge control with the scale added.

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Scale Properties

Scale properties summary

The following table summarizes the properties of the UltraRadialGauge control related to the scale.

Property Name Property Type Description

Double

Specifies the starting position of the scale measured from the center of the gauge. The value of this property should be between 0 and 1.

Setting this property to a value greater than the ScaleEndExtent property will result in the start extent defaulting back to the actual ScaleEndExtent value.

Double

Specifies the end position of the scale measured from the center of the gauge. The value of this property should be between 0 and 1.

Setting this property to a value less than the ScaleStartExtent property will result in the end extent defaulting back to the actual ScaleStartExtent value.

Double

Specifies the start angle for the scale in degrees.

Double

Specifies the end angle for the scale in degrees.

Double

Specifies the amount of extra space (in degrees) the scale sweeps, in both directions, beyond the start and end values. This value must be greater than 0. The default value is 3.

Brush

Specifies the brush used to fill the background of the scale.

SweepDirection

Specifies whether the scale sweeps clockwise or counterclockwise.

Circular - Increases the angle at which the ends of the shape is drawn

Fitted - Increase the angle of the outer and inner arc, but increases the angle of the inner arc more in order to keep the connecting lines of the scale shape parallel with where they would have been if the ScaleOversweep property was set to 0.

Auto - The property’s default setting, Auto – automatically determines the backing shape and sets the ScaleOversweep property accordingly.

If this property is set to Circular and the value of the BackingShape property is set to Fitted a visible gap will appear between the scale and the arc of backing shape. To ensure that the scale aligns correctly with the backing area of the gauge, the ScaleOversweep property and the BackingShape property should be set to the same value.

Configuring the Scale

Example

The screenshot below illustrates how the UltraRadialGauge renders with its scale properties configured as follows:

Property Value

0.5

0.4

15

Counterclockwise
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Following is the code that implements this example.

In C#:

var radialGauge = new UltraRadialGauge();
radialGauge.ScaleBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.LightGray);
radialGauge.ScaleStartExtent = 0.5;
radialGauge.ScaleEndExtent = 0.4;
radialGauge.ScaleOversweep = 15;
radialGauge.ScaleSweepDirection = SweepDirection.Counterclockwise;

In Visual Basic:

Dim radialGauge As UltraRadialGauge = New UltraRadialGauge
radialGauge.ScaleBrush = New SolidColorBrush(Color.LightGray)
radialGauge.ScaleStartExtent = 0.5
radialGauge.ScaleEndExtent = 0.4
radialGauge.ScaleOversweep = 15
radialGauge.ScaleSweepDirection = SweepDirection.Counterclockwise

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