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can you use something like Photoshop or Illustrator to design graphical elements to use in building you GUI?

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Hi,

Embedded Wizard itself doesn't contain any integreated graphic editor. All image parts needed by your GUI design (e.g. decoration borders, fancy backgrounds, etc.) have to be created by using an external graphic editor. While my colleagues use Photoshop I for example prefer Affinity Designer. It's up to you which tool you use.

Once you have designed the desired image you let the graphic editor to export the image in the PNG format. Then you can add the image as so-called Bitmap Resource to your Embedded Wizard Project. Such Bitmap Resources can then be displayed in your GUI by using appropriate Image views. In this manner you can compose the GUI from images.

Best regards

Paul Banach

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how does it handle animations? or can it handle element animations?

if so, would I build them image by image or can I make something akin to a short video clip or a GIF image?
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You have two possibilities:

1. You can animate every graphical object indiviidually, e.g. move, resize them or change their colors, scroll their contents, etc. Embedded Wizard provides for this purpose various animation effect objects which are optimized to handle with the various data types ike color, point (position), etc. See the chapter Using timers and animation effects.

2. You can configure a Bitmap Resource as containing several frames, which are automatically animated when the Bitmap is shown. See the section Multi-frame and animated bitmaps , Configure a multi-frame bitmap resource , Configure an animated bitmap resource and Control the playback of an animated bitmap resource.

Best regards

Paul Banach

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