General
Announcements
Welcome to the New Altia Support
Altia Design Articles and Videos
The Altia Design 11 Interface
- ★ [Video - 10 min] Altia Design 11 Interface: A Quick Overview
- ★ [Video - 6 min] Moving Around (Groups, Focus In/Out, Zoom, Pan)
- ★ [Video - 6 min] Altia Navigator
- The Timeline Pane
- [Video - 2 min] Font Modules
- [Video - 5 min] Renaming Animations
Altia Tool Chain Intros
Animation Editor
Stimulus Editor
Altia Objects and Model Libraries
- ★ [Video - 4 min] The Image Object
- ★ [Video - 8 min] The Deck Object
- ★ [Video - 3 min] The Text I/O
- ★ [Video - 9 min] The Clip Object
- [Video - 15 min] The Mask Object
- [Video - 10 min] The 3D Scene Object
Code Generation
- ★ Create a Windows exe Using DeepScreen
- ★ [Video - 7 min] Photoshop to GUI to Code Generation to Hardware in 7 Mins!
- ★ [Video - 8 min] Make a Quick GUI Change, Generate Code, Run on Hardware
- Object movement calcuations showing pixel shifting on hardware
- Failed to Initialize Altia (Altia Codegen Message)
- Maximizing the performance of hiding or dismissing objects on hardware
Working with Code - Control code, C APIs, and Altia Runtime
- ★ [Video - 6 min] Use External C Code and the API for Your GUI
- ★ [Video - 9 min] Altia Control Code vs. C Code
- Computing the Bounding Box of a Card Deck
- The exe window is the wrong size due to a trim that clips the Altia GUI window when building from Visual Studio 2013 using the Windows target!
- Touch Screen Calibration Under Linux/ts_lib
- [Altia Forum] Minimizing the Altia Runtime window from code
Transforms and Special Effects
- ★ Arc Shaped Gauges and Other Animated Reveal Effects
- ★ [Video - 5 min] Clear Style and Clear Transform for Parent/Child Objects
- Creating Color Fade Animations
- [Video - 4 min] 2.5D / "3D" effects with the Distort Tool
- [Video - 4 min] The Blur Filter
- [Video - 1 min] Create Dynamic Reflected Text with Snapshot
Importing and Exporting
- [Video - 30 mins] Psd Layers to Hardware Based Layers in 30 mins or Less!
- Import graphics from Adobe Ilustrator to Altia Design
- [Video - 3 min] Text Shaping for Right to Left Languages
- [Video - 4 min] Import Adobe Illustrator SVG (vector paths)
- [Video - 4 min] Changing Languages in a GUI Using the Language object
- [Video - 5 min] Apply a GUI Skin or Theme
Classing: Base Classes and Instances
Text IO Object, Multi-line Text IO Object, and Fonts
- ★ How to elide text with an ellipsis if the text string is too long.
- ★ How to create a font scale animation.
- ★ How do I optimize and embed my font data?
- Bulk Swap Fonts
- Eliding text in Altia Design 12
- MLTO line vertical padding is affected by font ascent and descent entries in the font.
Properties Editor
Connection Editor
Design Considerations
- ★ Dsn and project optimization tips to optimize your workflow and project size
- Smooth Scroll vs. Snap Scroll Lists
- Team Collaboration Best Practices
- Chroma Keying
- DSN file background color
- Vector Path/SVG files in Altia Design