MPLAB^® Harmony Graphics Suite (MHGS) Embedded GUI Development Tool for 32-bit MCUs

Whatever your experience level is, the GUI Editor allows you to quickly and easily create professional-looking embedded graphical interfaces that closely match other corporate-branded elements of your product.

• WYSIWYG GUI drawing screen and tool organizer
• Objects such as image assets, widgets and text can be placed, moved and modified directly on the display area and then precisely recreated on the target system
• Also provides tools for layer management and widget editing
• Display area is tightly coupled to the Display Manager, allowing the GUI Editor to exactly match a wide range of resolutions and aspect ratios

Cut your development and prototyping time for non-standard displays with this industry-exclusive, customized driver generator. The Display Manager is designed to eliminate coding and use data taken straight from the display’s datasheet, lowering the barrier of entry for novice graphics and hardware developers.

• No coding required—configure display drivers through an easy-to-use embedded GUI interface
• Uses readily available information from display data sheets
• Supports standard and non-standard display resolutions and aspect ratios
• Provides simulated timing characteristics for rapid visual inspection and validation
• Works with internal, external or low-cost-controllerless driver models  

Fonts are an important part of maintaining a consistent and professional look and feel between products and corporate marketing collateral. The Font Manager makes quick work of importing and applying the correct fonts for your embedded graphics application.

• Language-independent font import supports efficient application localization
• Can automatically select necessary glyphs to save memory, leading to potentially smaller, lower-cost designs, or filter glyph selections in a user-selected range
• Import and use custom corporate fonts as well as system fonts to support brand management
• Word-processor-like font style support for ease of use and customization
• Support for custom character and line spacing, UTF-8 and UTF-16 multi-language fonts

It’s natural for embedded designs to require that graphics react to external events, such as button presses and changes in sensor readings. The wizard-based Event Manager drives minimally coded tight coupling to enable touch user events and external logical events that change the graphics state machine and graphics properties.

• GUI interface manages all touch events and gestures associated with embedded graphics applications
• Fine-grained event and gesture definition enables the customized look and feel for your user interface
• Import or create custom, user-defined actions per event and gesture, or use actions already associated with in-tool widgets
• Macro-based development environment to program graphics actions to external events

To be practical and profitable, embedded graphics designs must be flexible and memory efficient. The String Manager contains many easy-to-use features for text customization for branding, localization and stylization.

• Built-in, GUI-based localization support enables quick and easy language editions
• Languages can be selected and deselected at build time to reduce memory footprint, which reduces costs
• Style binding of test strings enables rapid customization and prototyping to easy form, fit and function text design
• Translations can be imported via a spreadsheet file, enabling expert localization support