T0masz
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Car type gauges(instrument panel/cluster)
Im looking for a component that has a decent look/feel to it, I browsed thru a bunch of free ones but none can compare to
these http://www.dundas.com/products/Gauge/gallery/gallery.aspx?ImgGroup=Circular
Does anyone know of any components like those for delphi? if not, I can have a graphics designer make my own, how can I put needles over the graphics layout tho?
Tom
these http://www.dundas.com/products/Gauge/gallery/gallery.aspx?ImgGroup=Circular
Does anyone know of any components like those for delphi? if not, I can have a graphics designer make my own, how can I put needles over the graphics layout tho?
Tom
hello T0masz, , I looked at the web page you gave a link forat dundas, and the gauges that they show in their pictures, do look good, and I beleive they have an art department, or some digital graphics designer to make images for their gauges. . I do not know of any Delphi components that do gauges, , but I have done displays that have "non-Square" , round, half-round, "Meter" looking things, some have a pointer "needle" looking indicator, I may can have code to show you -
" how can I put needles over the graphics "
" how can I put needles over the graphics "
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That would be great, as I can have my own gauges designed or take pictures or real existing gauges or templates for them.
Tom
Tom
OK, this is NOT an easy thing to do, as you have found there are not many "Gauge" components for delphi. . . Looking at the pictures on the web link page above, it looks to me, that on some of the images they may have a series if Images for the "Needle", an Image for every needle value from one to 100, my code is NOT for that kind of thing, I have not ever used a bitmap image as a rotating "Needle" indicator, , , , I mostly have calculated a polygon and drew a pointy polygon for a "Needle". . .
Is that the sort of thing you are interested in? Do you have much experience with graphical methods and delphi trigonomic arithmatic fucntions like DegToRad or SinCos( ) ? ?
Is that the sort of thing you are interested in? Do you have much experience with graphical methods and delphi trigonomic arithmatic fucntions like DegToRad or SinCos( ) ? ?
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the component is named "TJvDialButton"