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Design Webinar Q&A – iPhone or Andriod Devices

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: How to publish the GUI on iPhone or Android devices?

Brian: Altia has DeepScreen code generation targets for both Android and iPhone/iPad.

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates:www.altia.com/blog 

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Design Webinar Q&A – Grouping

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: How do you group?

Brian: Click the small icon over in the left tool box near the bottom or use CTRL + G. It’s always best to group before adding any animation, stimulus, or control. You can easily see in the navigator what objects have what defined behaviors. 

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates:www.altia.com/blog 

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Design Webinar Q&A – Deck objects

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: So my deck can be really deep? How many cards can you have in a deck / deck object? 

Brian: Yes. You can have tons of separate “screens” by using the cards of the deck. Altia Design lets you create user interfaces / GUI that have infinite number of screens. Decks make this easy. There are technically an unlimited number of cards in a deck plus you can have decks inside decks and any number of objects within any number of deck cards. New in Altia Design 10 was the navigator which made managing decks even easier and more visual. For details and demo videos on the navigator, you can go here: Altia Design 10.1 

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates:www.altia.com/blog 


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Design Webinar Q&A – UI types

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: Altia is not design focused in the area of automotive UI design only, is it? I had household electronic goods in my mind due to the background research I conducted. 

Brian: With Altia, you can design any type of user interface. Our customers have used Altia Design to build UIs for fitness equipment, medical devices, home appliances, industrial equipment, etc. You can check out some more demos here: Demo User Interfaces 

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates:www.altia.com/blog 

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Design Webinar Q&A – Generating C Code

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: How do you generate C Code from Altia Design? 

Brian: Altia Design is where you create the user interfaces or GUI projects- it is our core UI tool. Altia DeepScreen is for generating deployable C code for the embedded systems based on the UI you developed in Altia Design. Per the demo at the end of the webinar video, select “Code Generation” -> “Generate Source Code” and choose your target and options.

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates:www.altia.com/blog 

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Design Webinar Q&A – Design vs. DeepScreen

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: What is difference between DeepScreen and Altia Design?

Brian: Altia Design is the integration and development tool – this is our core GUI tool or program to create embedded user interface projects. DeepScreen is the code generation suite which is used to generate graphics code for hardware targets.

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates:www.altia.com/blog 

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Design Webinar Q&A – MATLAB Stateflow Integration

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: Is it possible to integrate the MATLAB Stateflow with Altia Design?

Brian: Yes! We have a demo to do just that with all the files you need. Just email info@altia.com for that demo. Make sure to tell us where you are from and that you saw the webinar.

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates:www.altia.com/blog 

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Design Webinar Q&A – Versions of Altia Software

February 22nd, 2012

*** On February 14th, one of our Senior HMI Developers, Brian Stewart, presented a training webinar entitled “Altia Design 101: Ready, Set, GUI!”. The webinar showed how to build user interface projects from start to finish. Brian also included a live demo of building an automotive user interface using our GUI tools. This post features a question asked by an attendee.

QUESTION: What version of Altia Design are you using to build the GUI? What is the latest version of the Altia Design UI tools?

Brian: This is Altia Design 10.1 which came out in December of 2011. Altia Design 10 included tons of new features like vectors, blur, classing, and the ever-powerful navigator. Here’s a link to read about the newest features: Altia Design 10.1 

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To watch a recorded video of the webinar, shoot us an email to info@altia.com so we can send you a download link. To attend future webinars, check our blog regularly for updates: www.altia.com/blog 

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Cool Automotive Interfaces showcased in USA Today

February 16th, 2012
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The front page of the Money Section in today’s issue of USA TODAY featured an article highlighting the growing virtual cluster world for automotive OEMs. The article entitled “Cars’ instrument panels become more like video games” mentions several projects that feature Altia products. Great to see our handy work in action. To read the article, click here. And to find out exactly which of the cars mentioned feature UIs from Altia, email us.

 

 

 

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User Experience Director has article published in Product Design & Development

February 16th, 2012

Altia’s User Experience Director, Steve Tengler, recently had an article published in Product Design and Development. “From Whence Come Failures” outlines various failure mechanisms and how to design for these different modes. Click here to read the full article. 

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