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Configuring the Background (UltraRadialGauge)

Purpose

This topic provides a conceptual overview of the UltraRadialGauge™ control’s Background feature. It describes the properties of the background area and provides an example of its implementation.

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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.

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This topic contains the following sections:

Background Feature Overview

Background feature summary

Displayed as a circle, the background section of the UltraRadialGauge control is where all the different elements such as needles and tick marks are added to the gauge.

This area can be customized to be either circular or fitted by setting the BackingShape property. A circular shape creates a 360 degree circle gauge while a fitted shape creates a filled arc segment encompassing the scale.

Preview

The following image is a preview of the UltraRadialGauge control rendered with the background configured as Fitted.

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Background Feature Property Reference

Background feature property reference chart

The following table summarizes the properties of the UltraRadialGauge control related the background area.

Property Name Property Type Description

Brush

Use this property to specify the gauge’s background brush fill.

Double

Determines the corner rounding radius to use with the fitted scale background. If the gauge uses a fitted background shape, use this property to provide rounded corners for the background.

Double

Determines the inner extent of the gauge’s background. This applies only when using fitted background shapes.

Double

Determines the outer extent of the gauge’s background. This applies only when using fitted background shapes.

Brush

Determines the brush used for the outline of the background.

Double

Determines the oversweep or undersweep degrees to apply to the fitted background. Use this property to add extra space and extend the background shape past the start and end of the scale.

RadialGaugeBackingShape

Use this property to set the shape of the gauge’s background to a predefined shape. The background shape can either be circular or fitted. A fitted shape creates a filled arc segment that encompasses the scale.

Double

Determines the stroke thickness for the background outline.

Configuring the Background

Example

The following screenshot shows how the UltraRadialGauge control renders using this background properties configuration:

Property Value

AliceBlue

Fitted

10

0.9

0.2

4

5
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Following is the code that implements this example

In C#:

var radialGauge = new UltraRadialGauge();
radialGauge.MinimumValue = 0;
radialGauge.MaximumValue = 10;
radialGauge.Value = 1;
radialGauge.BackingShape = RadialGaugeBackingShape.Fitted;
radialGauge.BackingCornerRadius = 10;
radialGauge.BackingOuterExtent = 0.9;
radialGauge.BackingInnerExtent = 0.2;
radialGauge.BackingOversweep = 4;
radialGauge.BackingStrokeThickness = 5;
radialGauge.BackingBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.AliceBlue);

In Visual Basic:

Dim radialGauge As UltraRadialGauge = New UltraRadialGauge
radialGauge.MinimumValue = 0
radialGauge.MaximumValue = 10
radialGauge.Value = 1
radialGauge.BackingShape = RadialGaugeBackingShape.Fitted
radialGauge.BackingCornerRadius = 10
radialGauge.BackingOuterExtent = 0.9
radialGauge.BackingInnerExtent = 0.2
radialGauge.BackingOversweep = 4
radialGauge.BackingStrokeThickness = 5
radialGauge.BackingBrush = New SolidColorBrush(Color.AliceBlue)

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