Virtual Machinery Indicator

Indicator  
Virtual Machinery’s Indicator Widget creator is a set of applications which allow you to interactively create Radio style Knobs, Meters, Dials and LED indicators for use on the Java platform. The WYSIWYG envronment allows you to fine-tune your designs to exactly meet your requirements, instantly showing each change as it is saved. Test interfaces are provided to show the capabilities of each design. When you are satisfied with your design you can create code which you can then cut and paste into your application. Applications can then be distributed with a small jar (<40k).

Indicators - Base License - Indicators developers license for use on a single PC. Includes jar files, full documentation. Note that if you want to distribute applications built using the Indicators classes you will need a Distribution license (as outlined below) 
Indicators - Base License + Royalty free Commercial Distribution License - As Per Base license but also includes the Commercial Distribution License which allows you to sell applications based on Virtual Machinery's Indicators classes. 
Indicators - Royalty free Commercial Distribution License - Allows you to sell applications based on Virtual Machinery's Indicators classes. (** Requires Indicators Base License **). 
Indicators - Site Development License - Allows all of the developers at a single physical site to develop applications with Virtual Machinery's Indicators product. (** Requires Indicators Base License **). 
Indicators - Corporate Development License - Allows all of the developers working for the same corporate entity to develop applications with Virtual Machinery's Indicators product. (** Requires Indicators Base License **). 
Indicators - Source Code License - Provides the source code for Virtual Machinery's Indicators product and documentation covering how to easily extend and modify Virtual Machinery's code. (** Requires Indicators Base License **). 

 

Virtual Machinery’s Indicator Widget creator is a set of applications which allow you to interactively create Radio style Knobs, Meters, Dials and LED indicators for use in a java environment. The WYSIWYG envronment allows you to fine-tune your designs to exactly meet your requirements, instantly showing each change as it is saved. Test interfaces are provided to show the capabilities of each design. When you are satisfied with your design you can create code which you can then cut and paste into your application. Applications can then be distributed with a small jar (<40k).

Generic Features

• WYSIWYG creation of widgets
• Full API available
• Full documentation
• Source code available
• Small distribution jar
• Single Runtime license cost
• Additive Licensing policy means that you only buy the license that you need when you need it

Knob features

• Range of rim styles – solid, shaded, ribbed, gradient paint with shading
• High definition graphics
• Allows use of background graphics
• Range of Indicator types – tick, arrow , spot
• Control placing of text items
• Define ticks and tick labeling e.g. fonts, size, color

Meter & dial features

• Range of rim styles – solid, shaded, ribbed, gradient paint with shading
• High definition graphics
• Allows use of background graphics
• Control placing of text items
• Define ticks and tick labeling e.g. fonts, size, color
• Fully customizable needle

LED features

• Different styles – bar, spot, arrow, circular
• Direction can be set – horizontal, vertical, left to right, right to left.

A Trial version of the product is available for download. This has all the functionality which allows you to create and test each style of widget but you cannot create code and the run-time jar is not provided. Product documentation is also included.

The sample application will have to be installed and compiled before it can be run. First copy the indicators jar VMIndicators.jar and the com folder from the code directory of your installation to a folder that is on your java classpath (or copy them into the \bin directory of your installation). Then modify the compileSamples.bat and runSample.bat files to reflect your local environment and where you have installed the files. Then run the compileSamples.bat batch file - if this is successful the run the runSample.bat batch file. All of the code for the demo is in the ..\code\com\virtualmachinery\indicators\samples\SampleIndicators.java file.

*** Please note that the sample application is not packaged with the Indicators Demo ***

The sample application (shown above) illustrates how to use indicators created using the Indicator creator. It includes 3 controls of each type - Radio Knob, LED bar and Meter. The first radio knob can be used to set the value of each of the other two radio knobs. The value set by each radio knob is used to set the value of the LED bar and meter associated with each radio knob. This means that changing the value of the The LED bar and meter associated with each radio knob are above it in the application. The values of each of the indicators are shown in text boxes. Note how the text colour in the boxes associated with the meters changes to reflect the region of the meter that the needle is in. The code used to create this demo is explained in the Programmers Guide.