Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite Demonstration

This video is a compilation of the Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite demonstration applications available for download. This video includes example applications using Tilcon Graphics Suite with medical devices industrial automation, automotive, consumer devices, and OpenGL 3D graphics.

Benefits and Features

Benefits

• Deploy high-quality embedded GUIs faster and more cost-effectively.
• Design, prototype, simulate, and test an embedded GUI early in development without coding.
• Integrate a GUI quickly with your embedded platform using Wind River Tilcon GUI Engine.
• Use with Wind River's VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems.

Results

• Superior user interface: An appealing, user-centric graphical interface drives higher adoption rates and sales.
• Dramatically faster time-to-market: Streamlined, codeless GUI development generates a competitive advantage with minimal effort and development time.
• Reduced cost and risk: Simpler, smoother development consumes fewer resources and reduces project risk.
• Greater agility: User interface modification without application changes makes revision and rebranding simpler.

Features

Unique Host-to-Target GUI Development Tool

• Visual development: Develop your embedded GUI visually, using a drag-and-drop environment.
• Instant product integration: Instantly download to your embedded device an interface developed and tested on your host PC.
• Easily change the interface: Quickly iterate your GUI without having to rebuild your application with each change.
• Portability and cross-platform compatibility: Get seamless portability and true cross-platform compatibility with identical APIs on all supported platforms.

Interface Creation Tools for Complete Application Prototyping

• Anti-aliasing: Generate smooth edges for a high-quality look and feel.
• Alpha blending: Smoothly blend one object into another, moving, scrolling, and scaling the alpha-blended object.
• WYSIWYG development environment: Reduce training and the need for experience with easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool.
• Photoshop import/export: Load professionally designed graphic elements directly into your GUI, with no cut-and-paste required.
• Codeless animation: Use complex effects and animated graphics in any screen, with no costly coding.
• Easy customization: Customize with straightforward property sheets.
• OpenGL 2.1 3D graphics: Render OpenGL 3D objects within frames.

No Coding to Fully Prototype or Simulate Interface

• Enhanced usability: Easily model your application front end and explore new concepts in usability before writing a single line of product code.
• A "socialized" interface: Share concepts easily across the organization—with management, engineers, designers, and users—with self-contained executables that show your ideas in action.
• Easy testing: See a GUI snapshot at any time during the design and development process, and the prototype becomes the product.

Rich Selection of User Interface Objects

• Widget library: Use existing library for buttons, meters, gauges, charts, and more, or create your own objects using Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool (formerly Tilcon Interface Development Suite).
• OpenGL 2.1–compliant: 3D graphics libraries are compatible with existing VxWorks graphics drivers.

Interface Builder

Build a better GUI faster, with drag-and-drop simplicity, using Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool.

• GUI design and development made easy
  • Build a user-centric GUI instead of an engineering-centric one.
  • Avoid costly product changes late in the development cycle.
  • Use drag-and-drop simplicity.
• An upfront GUI
  • Get input from designers, engineers, and usability experts in the earliest stages of development.
• Adobe Photoshop import
  • Bring completed elements and backgrounds into your GUI from Photoshop.
• Codeless development
  • Build and test graphics visually in real-time, without application code, third-party libraries, or recompilation.
• Prototype to product
  • Quickly create a complete, working, user-centric interface without impacting the product development schedule.
• Supported hosts
  • Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7
  • Linux

Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool

GUI Engine

Wind River Tilcon GUI Engine handles all low-level graphics code, fonts, text, images, colors, and more. All object functionality and behavior are preprogrammed. Simply attach a pre-integrated, tested, and optimized Tilcon GUI Engine to your device hardware platform for a finished product, complete with a GUI that provides display speed, maximum functionality, and optimal performance.

• Portable, proven, and optimized: Download interface screens to a product instantly with a pre-optimized embedded GUI engine for your target of choice.
• Easy integration testing: Build and test graphic objects in real-time without coding to quickly test your product with its interface.
• Low-impact hardware and software changes: Run graphic objects anywhere the Tilcon engine runs. No more risk associated with underlying application changes and no porting required.
• Instant rebrand and re-skin: Change any graphic element and view it immediately. No more building, testing, and downloading to the target.
• OpenGL 2.1–compliant: 3D graphics libraries are compatible with existing VxWorks graphics drivers.
• Run-time environments: Wind River VxWorks (Intel Architecture, Power Architecture, ARM); Microsoft CE (Intel Architecture, ARM); Microsoft Windows XP; Wind River Linux; Red Hat Linux on Intel Architecture