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Easy route to data driven GUI design

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Sep 12, 2005

New XML export and import capabilities for Altia Design will give users the ability to create data driven GUIs without coding or compiling.

Altia, a Colorado-based software development company specialising in HMI (human machine interface) and GUI (graphical user interface) development tools, has added new XML export and import capabilities for Altia Design.

This new capability will give customers the ability to create data driven GUIs without coding or compiling.

Users can create their GUIs using Altia Design, an HMI/GUI development tool and Altia's flagship product, using prebuilt components or by creating their own components using graphic primitives or imported raster images.

The XML output is a complete representation of all of the elements that comprise a GUI including behaviour and stimulus.

The completed GUI can be deployed using Altia's runtime players for various operating systems.

The new XML features in Altia Design use the SVG standard with added Altia enhancements.

Altia feels that data-driven GUIs will be the standard methodology in future software projects.

This approach allows graphic artists, system engineers, or software developers to create working user interfaces without writing or compiling a single line of code.

This affords the users of Altia Design the benefits of reduced development costs, lower life cycle costs and improved response to customer needs.