Visual Designer
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The Visual Designer allows you quickly create and modify digital dashboards and
diagrams for MFC applications. It generates XML files describing layout and properties of
dashboard and diagram elements. The XML can be loaded and processed at the runtime whenever
required to present an interactive digital dashboard and/or diagram to the end user. Run BCGVisualDesigner.exe application located in <BCGControlBar Pro (or BCGSuite) Installation Folder>\Designer folder. Now you can start creation of a new dashboard/diagram or load the existing data file. The designer data is saved in files with extension "visual-bcgsoft". [Back to Top]
[Back to Top] To add a new Gauge select the desired object from the Toolbox window and then
click the design surface. Now you can drag the object to reposition it on the
design surface, change its size and set its specific properties in the
Properties window. Some Gauges support collections of sub-gauges and additional scales. The collections can be edited with Properties window - just click "Scales" or "Subgauges" property. It will bring up an additional dialog for collection editing:
Sub-Gauge Editor
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When you want to see a dashboard in action select View | Run Test menu
item. It will display your digital dashboard in a separate window and allow
interaction with gauges whose property "Interactive Mode" was set to true
in the designer. Adding Dashboard or Diagram to Application
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