GUIslice library

A lightweight GUI framework for embedded displays

Design your GUI with a drag & drop builder, then apply the same code to a wide range of displays, libraries and controllers with the cross-platform framework. Open source MIT license grants free commercial usage.

• Extensive Documentation guides available
• GUIslice API documentation (online) & (PDF)
• Active development: see latest updates & work in progress
• Release history
• Website (www.impulseadventure.com)
• Support email: [email protected]
• GUIslice by Calvin Hass and GitHub contributors, Builder by Paul Conti

Features

• Pure C library, no dynamic memory allocation
• Widgets:
  • text, images, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, sliders, keypad, listbox, radial controls, scrolling textbox / terminal, graphs, etc. plus extensions and multiple pages.
• Cross-platform GUIslice Builder application to generate layouts
• Platform-independent GUI core currently supports:
  • Adafruit-GFX, TFT_eSPI, mcufriend, UTFT, SDL1.2, SDL2.0
• Devices:
  • Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ATmega2560, ESP8266 / NodeMCU, ESP32, M5stack, Teensy 3, Feather M0 (Cortex-M0), nRF52 (Cortex-M4F), LINUX, Beaglebone Black, STM32, Due, etc.
• Typical displays:
  • PiTFT, Adafruit TFT 3.5" / 2.8" / 2.4" / 2.2" / 1.44", FeatherWing TFT, OLED 0.96", mcufriend, BuyDisplay / EastRising 4.3" 5" 7", Waveshare, 4D Cape
• Display drivers include:
  • ILI9341, ST7735, SSD1306, HX8347D, HX8357, PCD8544, RA8875, ILI9341_t3, ILI9341_due
• Touchscreen control including:
  • STMPE610, FT6206, FT5206, XPT2046, 4-wire, tslib, URTouch, Adafruit Seesaw
• Foreign characters / UTF-8 encoding (in SDL mode), anti-aliased fonts (in TFT_eSPI mode)
• Dynamic display rotation
• GPIO / pin / keyboard / Adafruit Seesaw control for non-touchscreen devices

Screenshots

GUIslice Builder

• Includes cross-platform (Windows, LINUX and Mac) desktop application to generate GUIslice layouts
• Please refer to GUIslice Builder wiki for documentation