[FEATURE]Underwhelming look of the analogue indicator

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The Perspective Moving Analogue Indicator is a bit underwhelming to look at, and has some glaring graphical "issues".

For one, the rectangles inside of the main border (e.g. the "normal range", "high/low alarm", etc.) appear to be rectangles with a stroke, which means that when the stroke from the main border and the stroke from the inner rectangles combine, they create a slightly darker "halo" due to how the anti-aliased edges combine, making it look super tacky. I don't think the inner rectangles even need strokes at all, but there only appears to be the option to remove stroke on everything.

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The other things that can be improved are:

  • add the option to add a scale/ruler to either side of the bar (or top or bottom if horz). Adding a separate linear scale component to the side is fraught with positioning issues
  • add the option to display the process value at the top/bottom of the bar instead of one that follows the triangle
  • option to size the process value triangle - I feel the default is far too large and clunky
  • make the component useably resizeable. Currently, everything just stretches, including the text.
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Something like this is really nice and clean (and I'm in the middle of copying and building myself):
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Yours's looks nice!

Newbie Question:
Do you build from scratch or your copy from......somewhere? and then start modding?

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Building from scratch, but copying the design of that screenshot

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Yes, do that. Then please share it on Ignition Exchange so the rest of us can use it.

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I'm considering it! It'll come down to whether I'm allowed to or not

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Done!

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Yeah that is nice
If that ends up on exchange I am definately grabbing it.

Great work mate.

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This looks fantastic! This is the format of a moving analog indicator that I have been searching for. Any chance that you'd be willing to share?

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It'll be up on the Exchange shortly, it's still in review, however i've already attached it in this topic:

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