Using the Radial Gauge widget

The Radial Gauge widget allows you to build a dashboard-like application wherein you want to indicate a value that lies in a specific range. For example, a car's dashboard can contain a couple of Radial Gauge widgets that can be used to indicate the current speed and RPM.

How to do it…

To create a Radial Gauge widget, invoke the kendoRadialGauge function on the selected DOM element. A Radial Gauge widget contains some components, and it can be configured by providing options, as shown in the following code snippet:

$("#chart").kendoRadialGauge({
  
  scale: {
    startAngle: 0,
    endAngle: 180,
    min: 0,
    max: 180
  },

  pointer: {
    value: 20
  }

});

Here the scale option is used to configure the range for the Radial Gauge widget. The startAngle and endAngle options are used to indicate the angle at which the Radial Gauge widget's range should start and end. By default, its values are 30 and 210, respectively. The other two options, that is, min and...