Prism GUI tools ideal for embedded applications

A Quadros Systems product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jul 23, 2010

Quadros Systems has launched Prism, a suite of graphical user interface (GUI) development tools written in C++ for embedded applications in mobile phones, gaming systems and more.

The toolkit is also ideal for navigation systems, industrial control and medical electronics.

The Prism suite of graphical interface development tools and libraries was created by Blue Water Embedded.

This complete framework and toolset includes everything needed to design and deploy advanced graphical interfaces on embedded systems.

The Prism software includes the Prism Runtime Framework graphical library and the Prism Insight desktop UI design and layout application.

Prism is a GUI toolkit for building sophisticated user interfaces with rich animations, screens transitions, alpha blending, anti-aliasing, and canvas transformations.

Designed and optimised for embedded devices, it delivers a small-footprint solution that is said to be ideal for resource-constrained applications.

Prism Micro, a graphics toolkit for monochrome and limited colour depth targets, provides a solution for even the smallest devices.

Prism Insight is a desktop UI design and resource editing tool that supports both Prism and Prism Micro toolkits.

Developers can use Prism Insight to completely design a user interface using the drag-and-drop WYSIWYG environment.

Features include a resource editor for defining buttons, menus and other widgets and an animation designer to specify screen flows, transitions, effects and animations.

The output is used by the Prism Runtime Framework to generate sophisticated screen views.