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Software and Hardware Solutions for the 32-bit Designer
Graphics Display Designer X
The Microchip’s New Graphics Display Designer X (GDD X)
is an enhanced visual design tool that provides customers
with a quick and easy way of creating GUI screens for
graphical interface applications on Microchip MCUs. It can
be used with Microchip Graphics Library as a standalone
tool or as an MPLAB X IDE plug-in.
What’s New?
■ WYSIWYG design
■ Multi-platform
• Windows®, Linux®, Mac®
■ Improved design tools
• Drawing grid, auto widget alignment and other
drawing short cuts/productivity features
• Cut, copy, paste properties
■ Improved Screen navigation
• PowerPoint® style screen listing
Key Features
■ Allows you to resize, align and move widgets,
create color schemes, and add fonts and images to
your application
■ Generates source code ready for PIC32 microcontrollers
■ Provides the user with the same visual representation
of the embedded screen to draw objects on the PC
screen, this is referred to as “what you see, is what
you get” (WYSIWYG)
■ Eliminates the need to manually calculate the (x, y)
coordinates for on-screen object placements
Summary
Microchip provides a complete graphics library that allows
users to quickly and easily implement a Graphical User
Interface (GUI) on small, color, touch screen displays. The
complete graphics display solution that will enable
designer to quickly evaluate a graphics display solution at
minimal cost.
Key Features
■ Up to 16-bit or 65K colors
■ 2D objects such as line, circle, text, rectangle,
polygon, bar
■ 3D objects such as buttons, panels, window,
group box, slider
■ Image, animation
■ Resistive touch screen, keypad
■ Multiple fonts
Applications
■ MIMIC panels
■ Hand-held devices
■ Many other applications that require front-end
graphics display
Related Application Notes
■ AN1182: Fonts in the Microchip Graphics Library
■ AN1246: How to Create Widgets in the Microchip
Graphics Library
■ AN1227: Using a Keyboard with the Microchip
Graphics Library
■ AN1136: How to Use Widgets in the Microchip
Graphics Library
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Graphic Display
Graphic Connect Layer
(Button, Slider, Edit Box, etc.)
User Message Interface
(Touch Screen, Keypad, etc.)
Graphic Primitive Layer
(Line, Circle, Bar, etc.)
Display Device Driver Layer
(PutPivot, SetColor, etc.)
Application Layer
Graphics Library