As your embedded application grows sometimes all those screens make it difficult to focus on a certain aspect of the GUI application. With Storyboard, you can customize the screens being shown and the actual layout of screens being developed to align to match how the screens are transitioned to within the final GUI application for a more intuitive development workflow.
Your custom-built components can now be modified after-the-fact improving their reusability across different GUI applications and helping speed up the GUI development process.
Learn how the workflow for exporting Storyboard-built GUI applications to MCU hardware has been simplified by combining what used to be separate steps into a more unified experience for exporting to MCU-based hardware.
Before we are able to start using the demos from the public Crank code repository we will first need to install a SVN client. To do so in Storyboard Designer we go to Help > Install New Software.
The STM32MP157C-DK2 is a great Linux capable application processor and development kit which is a perfect embedded target host for Storyboard HMI-based products.
Arcs can be used for many purposes, but are often used to show some form of progress. This tutorial will walk you through how to animate an arc to create a loading wheel, using two different methods. The first will use the start and end angles that define the arc to create a spinning wheel where the tail chases the head. The second will use the arc’s rotation to create a pinwheel-like animation.
Arcs are often used for gauges and methods of showing some kind of level of data or progress. This tutorial will walk you through how to handle incoming data using Storyboard IO, and use that data to display an increase or decrease using a gauge made with arcs.
Translations are typically implemented towards the end of a project. In this scenario, you have been developing the app and filling in default text in a single language to be translated at a future time. Now that time has arrived and the translator is standing by to fill in alternative values for whatever languages will be supported. The following tutorial will walk you through the recommended workflow for exporting a translation database file for the translator to fill in and re-importing it into the project to view the translations in the app.
Sometimes the best way to display data in Storyboard is with tables and table variables. Tables, as well as cells within the table, are able to contain several render extensions, aka user interface table variables. This allows them to behave dynamically and perform a wide variety of tasks.
Following on from the RT1060: Enabling faster flashing article which discusses how to enable the advanced LPC-Link2 JTAG debugger features on the i.MXRT1060EVK board I was inspired to explore how we could make good use of this with Storyboard applications.