Embedded Wizard GUI News 04/11, November 23rd. 2011
New Embedded Wizard V6.10:
Menus, editor, virtual keyboard and fancy lightweight 3D animation
Dear customers and partners,
we are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our GUI development tool "Embedded Wizard" (EmWi) V6.10, which includes new widgets, examples and functions, that will facilitate many tasks of your UI project, especially widgets for menus and panels, text editors with zoom and lightweight 3D animation examples based on new class library Mosaic 2.0.Now, EmWi includes even more examples and UI starting points for its various areas of use ranging from consumer electronics products, industrial and household appliances, to medical and automotive products.
The new EmWi V6.10 is available for customers and as free trial version in our download center.
Thank you for your valuable time & best regards,
the EmWi team
Whats new?
EmWi V6.10 includes new widgets, examples and functions, e.g.:
- Menu and panel widgets: including menu items, buttons and sliders used to develop various menu and dialog systems, which are widely used in Consumer Electronics products, but also for interaction and configuration in industrial and household applications (incl. example project for an easy startup).
- Text Editor widget: comfortable multiline editor with line break, text navigation and zoom function for various user inputs (incl. example project for an easy startup).
- Numeric keyboard and full keyboard widget: for various user inputs, e.g. in combination with the text editor.
- External Bitmap: as an interface to ext. JPEG/GIF/PNG decoders in order to dynamically load bitmaps at runtime.
- Fancy lightweight 3D animations: now adapted to new class library Mosaic 2.0 as example and starting point for own GUI animations and effects.
We highly recommend to study the latest Embedded Wizard Release Notes before installing the new version.
Fancy lightweight 3D animation, now with Mosaic 2.0 class library
Downloading EmWi V6.10
Embedded Wizard V6.10 is available as full version for customers and free trial version for your evaluation:
If you have questions about the availability of a platform package update for your hardware platform, please contact us.
Switching to EmWi V6.10 & Mosaic 2.0?
We recommend to our customers, to use the latest version EmWi V6.10, to benefit from it's improvements. It enables maintenance and development of GUI projects based on both class library versions Mosaic 1.0 and Mosaic 2.0. For every newly created project, developers can choose to base the project on either Mosaic 1.0 or Mosaic 2.0.
If you are using Embedded Wizard for maintenance of GUI reference software, e.g. from a semiconductor vendor, please contact your SC vendor before switching to EmWi V6.10 regarding compatibility of their reference software and new EmWi V6.10.
If you are starting a new GUI project with Embedded Wizard, we highly recommend to use class library Mosaic 2.0, as it facilitates the startup phase enormously. Please check the requirements for using Mosaic 2.0 below.
If you are maintaining existing GUI projects, based on Mosaic 1.0, we recommend to keep using Mosaic 1.0 until you plan a major extension or re-design of your GUI project.
Requirements for using Mosaic 2.0
"Mosaic" is the class library of Embedded Wizard, which provides widgets and functions to make your UI development easier. The usage of new version Mosaic 2.0 requires the availability of Graphics Engine 2.0 (GE 2.0) for your embedded target platform. TARA continues to make GE 2.0 available on more and more new hardware platforms. Please contact us for specific questions about your platform.
About Embedded Wizard
"Embedded Wizard" (EmWi) is a cross-platform GUI development and prototyping tool, which can be used with almost any chipset, graphics API and operating system. It enables creation of state-of-the-art user interfaces including 3D-like animations and effects with highly optimized performance on the target. Embedded Wizard is used for UI design in consumer electronics (CE) products, industrial and household appliances as well as medical and automotive products.
Today, Embedded Wizard is running on over 40 chipsets from almost all major semiconductor vendors, on graphics APIs like DirectFB and OpenGL, and on almost all common operating systems including Embedded Linux, Apple iOS, Android and Windows CE.
Embedded Wizard is developed and distributed by TARA Systems GmbH, an embedded software development house located in Munich, Germany.