Gauges Issues/Questions

jls · Post by **jls** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:18 am

1) The properties Labels and X are not stored (Datasource)
What is the purpose of these properties?

2)Is it possible to place the unit name e.g. km/h below the circle center

3Changing of a circular gauge to a linear doesn't work well

4)any plans for vertical linear gauge?

5)Select Greenline>Style
In the Pointer dialog the button for the shadow editor is not fully displayed

6)naming of Geenline and Redline
It may be better to call then Sector1 and Sector2. I also want to have sector 3. (green,yellow,red)

7)It is now possible to select pallet. That is OK.
It is still difficult to make nice looking gauges like the shown on your webpage.
It will be nice to have a set of templates/galleries to select from.

8)What about 120/180 gauges?

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:15 am

Hi jls,

Please find below the answers to your questions:

1) The properties Labels and X are not stored (Datasource)
What is the purpose of these properties?

Those properties are useless in gauge series. They are just there because are inherited from basic series class (TChartSeries).

2)Is it possible to place the unit name e.g. km/h below the circle center

You can try making series' marks visible and populate series like this:

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  Series1.Clear;
  Series1.Add(40,'km/h');
  Series1.Marks.Visible:=true;

An alternative is using a TAnnotationTool.

3Changing of a circular gauge to a linear doesn't work well

Yes, you are right. I've added it (TV52012495) to our defect list to be fixed for future releases.

4)any plans for vertical linear gauge?

Yes, we expect to have this in future versions.

5)Select Greenline>Style
In the Pointer dialog the button for the shadow editor is not fully displayed

This works fine for me here. Could you please send us a screenshot of what you see?

6)naming of Geenline and Redline
It may be better to call then Sector1 and Sector2. I also want to have sector 3. (green,yellow,red)

Ok, I've added this request to our wish-list to be considered for inclusion in future releases.

7)It is now possible to select pallet. That is OK.
It is still difficult to make nice looking gauges like the shown on your webpage.
It will be nice to have a set of templates/galleries to select from.

The gauges in the gallery are made with TeeChart for .NET v3. We are working on enhancing the look of the VCL gauges but it's difficult as the VCL framework and GDI doesn't provide the facilities the .NET Framework and GDI+ have for such features.

8)What about 120/180 gauges?

Could you please give us some more details about those gauges?

Thanks in advance!

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:52 am

Hi jls,

I have received the images you sent.

5. I'm still unable to reproduce this problem here. I've checked it in several machines and works fine with our current v8 sources so you may expect this being fixed in the next maintenance release.

8. I've added your suggestions to our wish-list to be considered for inclusion in future release. However, even they are simpler than what you request, 120/180 gauges is the old gauges style we already had in v7.