Difference between revisions of "AN0323 - Using PowerPoint to Quickly Mock Up your GUI"

Latest revision as of 17:02, 14 November 2017

Have Microsoft PowerPoint? Not a professional graphic artist, but need a quick mock-up of your GUI to show off?

This app note shows you how to build a mock UI, drawing the GUI screens in PowerPoint, exporting them as full-page JPG files, importing them into SHIPTide, and building a simple slideshow viewer on the device.

Concepts covered:

• Using the PowerPoint template and exporting to .JPG slides
• Importing the slides into a SHIPTide project
• Sequencing the slides on the device

Microsoft PowerPoint Templates

Download and save the appropriate template to your PC. Open the file with Microsoft PowerPoint and use the pre-defined page sizes to build your mock GUI.

• 480x272 Template for SIM225, SIM231, SIM243  ↴ 
• 800x480 Template for SIM535, SIM553  ↴