Working with Embedded Wizard

Embedded Wizard Studio provides a powerful integrated development environment permitting you to design, test and customize great GUI applications for your products. In order to make proper use of our technology that are meant to facilitate your work, a good understanding of the philosophy behind it is necessary.

The following chapters will help you to develop this understanding. With its aim you will learn the workflow how to develop your GUI components, how to put them together within a new GUI application and finally how to integrate the application with your device. If you are new to Embedded Wizard we recommend you to process the chapters according to the order in which they are listed in the table below or in the navigation area on the left:

Step	Chapter	Description
1	Before you start	What to do when you are new to Embedded Wizard?
2	Structuring projects	Guidance how to structure new projects
3	Creating projects	How to create a new project with Embedded Wizard?
4	Managing resources and assets	How to add and use bitmap, font, text and other data in the project?
5	Creating new components	How to create a new GUI component?
6	Compositing component appearance	How to compose the appearance of a GUI component?
7	Prototyping and debugging	How to test the GUI application without the target device?
8	Using Views	Overview of Mosaic view components
9	Configuring component layout	How to control the layout behavior of a GUI component when the component changes its size at the runtime?
10	Implementing component interface	How to define and implement the programming interface to a GUI component?
11	Managing component state	How to store and manage the internal state of a GUI component?
12	Handling touchscreen or mouse events	Overview of Mosaic touchscreen and mouse event handler components
13	Handling keyboard events	Using the Key Handler to process keyboard and button input events
14	Using timers and animation effects	Overview of Mosaic timer and animation effect components
15	Managing scrollable contents	Overview of Mosaic components to display lists and other scrollable contents
16	Subclassing components	How to create a new GUI component from an existing one?
17	Creating components from templates	How to benefit from the provided component templates when creating new GUI components?
18	Creating non visual components	How to create functional (non visual) components to manage data and control the behavior within the application?
19	Assembling the application	How to create the root (main) application GUI component?
20	Integrating with the device	How to integrate the GUI application with other software in the target device
21	Displaying dynamically loaded images	Using the Extern Bitmap object to load and display image contents dynamically at the runtime
22	Managing localization	How to develop multilingual applications?
23	Managing variants	How to develop applications supporting several product as well as look&feel variants?
24	Generating code	How to convert the application in code valid for your target system?
25	Generating application specific CLUT	How to generate the optimal CLUT (color look-up table, palette) for your GUI Application on target devices using the color format Index8.
26	Extracting project documentation	How to generate HTML documentation from your project?
27	Managing templates	How to create and use your own templates in the Gallery
28	Using Embedded Wizard Studio in a team	How to work in a team with Embedded Wizard Studio?