Chart FX: Tight integration into Visual Studio for effortless programmability and superb end-user experience.

General Features

Design-Time Experience

Chart FX Gauges introduces a graphical properties list providing a rich and intuitive design-time experience. All gauge elements can be configured visually, in the properties list, without the need for modal dialogs or separate designers.

This powerful feature allows you to add rich and attractive gauges to your form in minutes by manipulating:

Look & Feel

Access any of the elements which comprise a gauge, including borders, needles, caps and other visual elements.

Layout

Set the position elements in the gauge relative to the border of the control or by using a graphical anchor point.

Palettes & Colors

Set all the gauge elements to a harmonious color palette, in design-time, without having to run the application.

Highly-Detailed Graphics

Each individual element that goes into creating a gauge is meticulously crafted by professional graphic artists. These elements combine to create a photorealistic gauge complete with shadows, lighting and glare effects.

Optimized for Real-Time

Chart FX Gauges harnesses the power of AJAX to enable powerful real-time capabilites in both Windows and Web Forms applications.

Radial Gauges

Radial Gauges are the most common and conventional type of gauge. These gauges are normally used to represent a quantifiable process progressing through the possible range displayed on a scale with a circular or semi circular aspect.

Radial Gauge Features

• Multiple border styles
• Needle and marker indicators
• Multiple needle styles
• Multiple marker styles
• Multiple cap styles
• Highly customizable scales: bar, tickmark types, labels, etc.
• Multiple scales in any position
• Multiple indicators per scale
• Shadows
• Custom scale labels
• Support of bitmap and vector images
• Multiple titles
• Glare and other photorealistic effects
• Internal gauges linkable to the main gauge's value
• Animated value change
• Draggable indicators
• Snapping
• Tooltips
• Sections
• Stripes
• Indicator color can be associated to the section or stripe
• Chart FX color palettes

Linear Gauges

Linear Gauges are normally used to represent the progress of a process or a specific value within a continuous range and fall into two catagories, horizontal and vertical. Common examples would be a ruler (horizontal) or a thermometer (vertical).

Linear Gauge Features

• Horizontal and vertical gauge types
• Multiple border styles
• Filler, marker and repeater indicators
• Multiple filler styles
• Multiple marker styles
• Multiple repeater styles
• Highly customizable scales: bar, tickmark types, labels, etc.
• Multiple scales
• Inverted scales
• Custom origin
• Multiple indicators per scale
• Custom scale labels.
• Support of bitmap and vector images
• Multiple titles
• Glare and other photorealistic effects
• Internal gauges linkable to the main gauge's value
• Animated value change
• Draggable indicators
• Snapping
• Tooltips
• Sections
• Stripes
• Indicator color can be associated to the section or stripe
• Chart FX color palettes

Digital Panel Gauges

Digital Panels are used for both numeric and alphanumeric displays. These panels are commonly prevalent in the world such as watches, registrars, information kiosks, alarm clocks, etc. The most common are 7-segment, 14-segment and LED.

Digital Panel Features

• 7-segment, 14-segment and LED styles
• Multiple border styles
• Multiple 7-Segment styles
• Multiple 14-Segment styles
• Multiple LED styles
• Support of bitmap and vector images
• Multiple titles
• Glare and other photorealistic effects
• Internal gauges linkable to the main gauge's value
• Tooltips
• Chart FX color palettes