Tutorials

[CFM]

Did the advance Tutorial - and works fine until chapter 6 GUI

Just don't understand any of it - help anyone?

[DSP]

Yes the GUI part can be a little confusing at first. Once you get the hang of it, it's quite simple.

Step 6 – Finalizing the GUI (http://www.dsprobotics.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=257)

The first thing is to gain access to the GUI system and to do this you need to add this Module GUI component (only one of these is needed or allowed on a particular layer).

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The MGUI component gives you the size of the window on the layer above, control over redraws and the ability to draw on the the layer above etc. The yellow V connectors are for this View and can also be converted into things like Area. Which is what is happening here, this area value is used to draw a rectangle for the background color.

The wireless link is used to send the View data to other graphical objects that you want on this layer, like the label 'Knight Rider LEDs'.

Finally if you go to the layer above and unlock the little pad lock symbol at the bottom of the selected module you can then drag the graphical elements around to position them.

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I hope this helps, this is covered in much more detail in the user manual but does take a little time to get your head around it.