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Creating a Digital Gauge Using the Gauge Presets

Before You Begin

Creating a Digital gauge using the Gauge Designer allows you to use predefined presets, therefore minimizing the work required to create Digital gauges.

What You Will Accomplish

Using the Gauge Designer to create Digital gauges will help you create visually appealing and professional-looking gauges such as odometers.

Follow these Steps

  1. From the toolbox, drag the UltraGauge control to your form. The Gauge Designer opens.

WinGauge designer that appears when you place ultragauge on a form.
  1. On the Toolbar, click Open Presets.

  2. Click the Digital tab.

Wingauge's digital preset tab in the gauge designer.
  1. Select a predefined Digital gauge. When you select a gauge it appears in the interactive preview area.

Wingauge with a preset applied to a digital gauge in the designer.
  1. To create a Digital gauge using the selected preset without closing the Gauge Designer, click Apply. To create a Digital gauge using the selected preset and automatically close the designer, click Apply and Close.

  2. Run the application. It should look similar to the form below.

Finished digital wingauge with preset applied.