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AN3128

Embedded GUI resource editor application

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Embedded GUI resource editor application

6.1

Introduction

The “Resource Editor for STM32 embedded graphic objects/touchscreen library” is a

software application to leverage the features of the multi-input GUI library developed on the

microcontroller platform.

Traditionally, the generation of touchscreen UIs requires writing a lot of redundant code and

painful mapping of screen coordinates to the interface. In absence of any WYSIWYG tool,

perfecting such an interface requires numerous time consuming iterations. The GUI library

is a part of the embedded UI generation ecosystem. It comprises the embedded GUI library

running on the firmware and the resource editor application running on the PC. The

resource editor GUI provides one common unified user interface to implement all the

interface design functionality, so that it becomes possible to make the changes visually and

generate the C code targeting the embedded GUI library in a few mouse clicks. The user

can include this code in their application and burn on the firmware.

The GUI allows the user to develop their own screens using the controls provided by the

library. The user simply drags and drops the controls from the tool box and changes the

control properties as required. After finishing the layout, the user is able to generate the

source code (header and c file) which can be integrated into the firmware application.

Figure 17.

Creating a GUI application

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