Real-Time Graphics Tools for .Net

For Immediate Release

Real-Time Graphics Software Targets C# and Visual Basic .Net

 Boston, Mass. - June 1, 2004 - Quinn-Curtis, Inc. introduces Real-Time Graphics Tools for .Net, an object oriented, .Net based toolkit aimed at developers who want to add real-time graphics to their C# and Visual Basic for .Net applications. Typical users are software professionals creating real-time .Net based applications for financial markets, network monitoring, factory automation, process monitoring, R&D instruments, test systems and quality control. The feature rich toolkit includes more than thirty different types of real-time displays including scrolling graphs, bar indicators, dials, meters, clocks, annunciators and panel meter indicators. It also supports advanced, time/date coordinate systems required for real-time reporting in financial markets, process monitoring and automation. Users are able to interact with charts: adding annotations, defining custom tool-tips and zooming into a particular region of a real-time plot. There is no comparable product for .Net available at any price.

 The Real-Time Graphics Tools for .Net software is sold as a single user Developer License for $250. The user is entitled to free updates for two years. A Redistributable License is required for the redistribution or deployment of applications or web sites that use the software. The cost per application or web site is $100. A 30-day trial version of the software is available from the Quinn-Curtis web site. A brief summary of the major categories of classes appears below.

·        Visual Studio .Net - Compatible with Visual Studio .Net Version 1.x and Microsoft .Net Framework Version 1.x.

·        Based on the .Net Drawing and Drawing2D API - Compatible with .Net components and applications.

·        Process Variable and Alarms - Real-time data is stored in RTProcessVar classes. The RTProcessVar class is designed to represent a single process variable, complete with limit values, an unlimited number of high and low alarms, historical data storage, and descriptive strings for use in displays.

·        Single Value Indicators - A single value indicator is a real-time display object that is attached to a single RTProcessVar object. This includes single channel bar indicators (which includes solid, segmented, custom and pointer bar indicators), meter indicators (which includes meter needles, meter arcs and meter symbol indicators), single channel annunciator indicators, panel meter indicators and scrolling graph plots based on a QCChart2D SimplePlot chart object.

·        Multiple Value Indicators - A multiple value indicator is a real-time display object that is attached to a group of RTProcessVar objects. This includes multiple channel bar indicators (which includes solid, segmented, custom and pointer bar indicators), multiple channel annunciator indicators, panel meter indicators organized in a grid, and scrolling graph plots based on a QCChart2D GroupPlot chart object.

·        Alarm Indicators - Alarm indicators are used to display alarm lines, symbols and fill areas for the RTProcessVar objects associated with the single value and multiple value indicator classes.

·        Panel Meter Indicators - The RTPanelMeter derived classes are special cases of the single value indicator classes that are used throughout the software to display real-time data in a text format. Panel meters are available for numeric values, string values, time/date values and alarm values.

·        Meter Axis Objects - Meter indicators needed new classes to support the drawing of meter axes, meter axis labels and meter alarm objects.

·        Form Control Classes - The .Net Button and TrackBar objects have been subclassed and enhanced for use in instrument panels. The RTControlButton class implements on/off colors and on/off text for momentary, toggle and radio button style buttons. The RTTrackBar class adds real-world scaling based on double values to the integer based TrackBar class. RTControlButton and RTTrackBar objects can be group together in a grid, organizing the control objects functionally and visually.

·        Scroll Frame -  A scroll frame manages constant rescaling of coordinate systems of plot objects that are displayed in a scrolling graph

·        Documentation and Demo/Example Programs - The software includes a comprehensive 400 page user manual with many programming examples, XML help for every class. Every programming example and example program is presented in C# and Visual Basic.

 

The software is written entirely in C# and works with all platforms and browsers compatible with Microsoft .Net Framework. Applications created using the software run on all Windows versions from Windows 98 to the current version of Windows XP.  The recommended development environment is Microsoft Visual Studio for .Net configured for the C# and/or the Visual Basic programming languages.

Quinn-Curtis, Inc. has been providing customers with innovative charting and real-time graphics technologies for 20 years.  For more information, contact Quinn-Curtis, Inc., 18 Hearthstone Dr., Medfield MA 02052 USA. Phone: 508-359-6639. Fax: 508-960-2729. E- mail: support@quinn-curtis.com. Internet: http://www.quinn-curtis.com.