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Adding UltraLinearGauge

Purpose

This topic explains how to add the UltraLinearGauge™ control to an Windows Forms application.

Required background

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic Purpose

This topic provides conceptual information about the UltraLinearGauge control including its main features, minimum requirements, and user functionality.

In this topic

This topic contains the following sections:

Adding UltraLinearGauge – Conceptual Overview

Adding UltraLinearGauge summary

To add UltraLinearGauge to a page, you need to create an instance of the control and add it to your page’s root element. The control is pre-configured to display a scale with values varying from 0 to 100, major and minor tick marks, and, by default, it takes the size of the container it is placed into.

Requirements

Add the following Infragistics assemblies to your main project:

  • Infragistics.Win.DataVisualization.UltraGauges.dll

  • Infragistics.Win.DataVisualization.Shared.dll

  • Infragistics.Win.Portable.Core.dll

  • Infragistics.dll

Also, add the following Infragistics namespaces:

In C#:

using Infragistics.Win.DataVisualization;

In VB:

Imports Infragistics.Win.DataVisualization

Steps

Following are the general conceptual steps for adding UltraLinearGauge .

1. Adding the UltraLinearGauge control

2. Configuring the scale

3. Configuring the needle

4. Configuring additional aspects (For details, see Adding UltraLinearGauge – Code Example and Configuring UltraLinearGauge .)

Adding UltraLinearGauge – Code Example

Introduction

The following procedure walks through instantiating a UltraLinearGauge control, adding it to a Windows Forms application, and configuring a needle, and three comparative ranges on the scale.

Preview

The following screenshot is a preview of the final result.

XamLinearGauge Adding 1 17 1.png

Prerequisites

To complete the procedure, you need the following:

  • A Windows Forms project with a Form

  • The required assembly references and namespaces added to the project (See Requirements.)

Overview

Following is a conceptual overview of the process:

1. Adding the UltraLinearGauge control

2. Configuring the scale

3. Configuring the needle

4. Adding comparative ranges

Steps

The following steps demonstrate how to add the UltraLinearGauge control to an application.

1. Add the UltraLinearGauge control.

Add a UltraLinearGauge declaration to your page’s root Grid element * *.

In C#:

var linearGauge = new UltraLinearGauge();
linearGauge.Height = 70;
linearGauge.Width = 300;

In Visual Basic:

Dim linearGauge As New UltraLinearGauge
With linearGauge
      .Height = "70"
      .Width = "300"
 End With

This declaration would instantiate UltraLinearGauge with its default look and settings and fixed size. This means that the scale would display the 0-100 range with major and minor tick marks so it would need some additional configuring.

XamLinearGauge Adding 2 17 1.png

2. Configure the scale.

In order to customize the values of the scale, you need to set its MinimumValue and MaximumValue properties . In this example, the scale will start at 5 and end at 55.

In C#:

linearGauge.MaximumValue = 55;
linearGauge.MinimumValue = 5;

In Visual Basic:

.MinimumValue = "5"
.MaximumValue = "55"

The changed scale is shown on the following screenshot:

XamLinearGauge Adding 3 17 1.png

3. Configure the needle.

To position the needle on the scale is managed by the value of the TargetValue property. For this example, set the Value property to 43.

In C#:

linearGauge.Value = 43;

In Visual Basic:

.Value = "43"

The following screenshot displays what the UltraLinearGauge control would look so far in the procedure.

XamLinearGauge Adding 4 17 1.png

4. Add comparative ranges.

In order to compare the value displayed by the performance bar against some meaningful range(s) of values, these comparative ranges need to be displayed on the scale. Comparative ranges are managed by Ranges property within which several individual LinearGraphRanges can be defined, each of which having its own starting and ending values (StartValue and EndValue) and color (Brush).

For this example, configure 3 comparative ranges, each of a different shade of gray, starting at the 0, 15, and 30 tick marks of the scale, respectively.

In C#:

var range1 = new LinearGraphRange();
   range1.StartValue = 0;
   range1.EndValue = 15;
   range1.Brush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(250, 0, 0));
var range2 = new LinearGraphRange();
   range2.StartValue = 15;
   range2.EndValue = 30;
   range2.Brush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(255, 255, 0));
var range3 = new LinearGraphRange();
   range3.StartValue = 30;
   range3.EndValue = 55;
   range3.Brush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(0, 153, 0));
linearGauge.Ranges.Add(range1);
linearGauge.Ranges.Add(range2);
linearGauge.Ranges.Add(range3);

In Visual Basic:

Dim range As New LinearGraphRange
 With range
      .Brush = New SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(255, 0, 0))
      .StartValue = 0
      .EndValue = 15
 End With
Dim range2 As New LinearGraphRange
 With range2
      .Brush = New SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(255, 255, 0))
      .StartValue = 15
      .EndValue = 30
 End With
Dim range3 As New LinearGraphRange
 With range3
      .Brush = New SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(0, 255, 0))
      .StartValue = 30
      .EndValue = 55
 End With

The final look of the graph is presented below.

XamLinearGauge Adding 1 17 1.png

Related Content

The following topics provide additional information related to this topic.

Topic Purpose

This is a group of topics explaining how to configure the various aspects of the UltraLinearGauge control including its orientation and direction and visual elements.

This topic provides reference information about the key classes and properties related to the UltraLinearGauge control.