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Displays and remote terminal units
News Release from: Mosaic Industries | Subject: GUI Toolkit
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 August 2003
Operator interface software tool kit
Mosaic Industries has released a graphical user interface (GUI) software tool kit for their QVGA Controller, a touchscreen-controlled embedded computer
Mosaic Industries has released a graphical user interface (GUI) software tool kit for their QVGA Controller, a touchscreen-controlled embedded computer The new GUI Toolkit provides an easy way to design and implement a complete graphical interface on the QVGA Controller to monitor and control instruments or industrial processes
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"With our new easy-to-use Toolkit you can create sophisticated system diagrams and screens that combine buttons, graphics, and text boxes to control your instrument", said David Siu, Mosaic's lead Design Engineer.
"With the GUI Toolkit, programmers will be able to build an operator interface using a simple, intuitive syntax".
Display screens and graphics objects are quickly developed using any Windows paint program, such as PC Paintbrush.
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Controller has touch-screen graphical interface
Mosaic Industries has introduced a new embedded instrument controller featuring a powerful touch-screen-controlled 1/4VGA graphical user interface (GUI)
Embedded controller with touchscreen
Mosaic Industries has released new modular products that expand the capabilities of its Panel-Touch Controller, a C-programmable embedded computer with a built-in graphical user interface (GUI)
The GUI Toolkit object-oriented menuing software makes it easy to design an instrument front panel containing controls that, when pressed, execute programmer-defined functions.
Controls may modify items displayed on the screen, acquire data from the user, or implement hardware actions.
The GUI Toolkit can also display system status using graphical representations, such as bar graphs, or text-based messages.
The GUI Toolkit is packaged as an operating system extension with a published glossary of programmer accessible functions, and runs on the QVGA Controller's 68HC11 processor.
The QVGA Controller mates a full-featured embedded computer to a high-contrast 320x240 pixel electroluminescent (EL) or LCD graphics display and a high-resolution four-wire analogue touchscreen.
The QVGA Controller contains plenty of I/O: it commands eight 12-bit analogue input channels, eight 8-bit analogue inputs, eight 8-bit D/A lines, 26 digital I/O, 4 high current drivers, and two RS232/485 ports.
For projects requiring a unique combination of specialised I/O, the QVGA Controller hosts up to eight stackable I/O modules to add dozens more digital and high-resolution analogue signals, isolated I/O, additional high-speed buffered serial lines, and compact flash mass memory.
The GUI Toolkit is sold as part of the QVGA Controller.
The complete product including the hardware and software is available now, the price starts at $799 with substantial volume discounts.
In business since 1985, Mosaic Industries provides off-the shelf customised hardware solutions, from analysis to product design, for numerous applications such as industrial control, automation of industrial processes, product development and/or product upgrades, data acquisition, and scientific instruments.
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