[AccessD] Visual Basic 2012 - Simple Gauge Tool

[Paul Hartland]

Thank you for all the replies I will be attempting to test them over the
weekend :)


On 20 March 2015 at 19:35, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:

> To do the bar graph thing I set the width (for horizontal) or height (for
> vertical) of the box based on the value it's supposed to represent.  Works
> like a charm.
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> James Button
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 9:06 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual Basic 2012 - Simple Gauge Tool
>
> A row of 100? Characters Solid blocks as in │ (ALT+0254) and set the font,
> or it's colour to transparent/ whatever shows differentiation appropriately
> on the number of characters according to the % And stick the % entries
> somewhere that 'form' or display window's code can access it on a
> 'happening' or timed interval.
>
> ││││││││││││││││││││
>
> JimB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Paul Hartland
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 12:19 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual Basic 2012 - Simple Gauge Tool
>
> Thank you for the reply Jim, unfortunately I need to get my hands on a free
> one that I can use on a VB.net WinForm as the company (tight buggers) do
> not
> want to pay for one, not long started learning VB.net and never been too
> good with creating graphics or would make my own one.
>
> On 20 March 2015 at 11:47, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >  Check the FMS web site.   They did sell a suite of Access controls and I
> > believe a gauge was one of them.
> >
> >  www.fmsinc.com
> >
> > Jim.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> > Of Paul Hartland
> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 03:45 AM
> > To: VisualBasicList; Access List
> > Subject: [AccessD] Visual Basic 2012 - Simple Gauge Tool
> >
> > To all,
> >
> > I have posted to vb group and access as I don't seem to get many
> > responses from the vb group for some reason.  Anyway I am looking for
> > a simple gauge tool and wondered if anyone on here had any
> > recommendations, basically I have a form with a grid and what I (well
> > the management want) is something above the grid similar (I suppose to
> > a speedometer) to show percentages, it will need to have two
> > needles/pointers which will indicate current gross margin percent and
> > new gross margin percent when the user enters a new price, I have all
> > the calculations in place for the percentages, just need a nice simple to
> use gauge tool.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help on this...
> >
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