emWin
emWin is an embedded GUI solution that enables the creation of highly efficient, high quality, graphical user interfaces on any embedded system. emWin empowers even resource-constrained microcontroller-based systems to run stunning interactive interfaces. emWin is independent from any target, and display. For more detailed reference and a function and type index, you should refer to the emWin user manual.
Contents
Getting started with emWin
Requirements
The requirements for running emWin on an embedded system are minimal, but always depend on how elaborate the final application is.
Requirements for Simulation
To run emWin in the simulation, one of the following IDEs is required.
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or higher
- Codeblocks IDE with MinGW compiler
Features
Listed below are emWin's core features. Every feature has its own page that explains the topic and offers examples for a better understanding.
- Displaying Text & Values
- 2D graphic operations
- Fonts
- Bitmaps
- Widgets
- Window Manager
- Animations
- Memory Devices
- Multi-Buffering
- Language Support
- Display Driver
Examples
Main Article: emWin Examples
This wiki offers simple, straight-forward examples that explain and visualize many of emWin's features.
Tutorials
Listed below are in-depth tutorials that give a more elaborate view on certain emWin features.
- Adding user data to windows: How to add user data to windows and widgets.
- Customizing windows: How custom behavior and custom drawing can be set up for a window.
- Creating animations: Creating and running animations in emWin.
- Fading images: How images can be faded in and out using emWin.
- Setup Multi-Buffering: Set up and configure emWin to use Multi-Buffering.
- emWin headless VNC server: Set up a headless VNC connection.
Tools
emWin also comes with many tools the user can utilize to, e.g. create custom emWin fonts, bitmaps or to even create complete applications.
- AppWizard
- Bitmap Converter
- Bin2C
- emVNC client
- emWin Movie Player
- emWinSPY
- emWinView
- Font Converter
- GUIBuilder
- JPEG2Movie
- U2C