AN0301: SHIPTide – First Look
New to SHIPTide? Lets take a quick tour of the IDE.
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Learn how to use the Serious Human Interface™ Platform, including SHIPTide, by following this video training curriculum.
New to SHIPTide? Lets take a quick tour of the IDE.
The “page” is on the main organizational elements in SHIPTide – your GUI is arranged in “pages”. Let’s check out this useful object.
How to rearrange your SHIPTide desktop.
Boxes are generic containers to hold content. They can be nested, and have many properties such as margin, padding, etc.
Shows how to build a simple header area on a page using nested containers (aka boxes and frames).
A very simple button in SHIPTide.
An initial simple way of doing page navigation using states.
Create a basic integer variable, initialize it, and have GUI elements like text and colors automatically change to track the variable.
How colors are described in SHIP and how to manage transparency of colors and objects.
How text colors and alignment in SHIP are inherited and overridden, and how to effectively use the lightweight text node.
Have Microsoft PowerPoint? Not a professional graphic artist, but need a quick mock-up of your GUI to show off?
The basics of layout rules — a powerful tool in SHIPTide to create scalable and auto-adjusting GUI layouts.
The basics of fonts in SHIP: how add fonts, instantiate font sizes and styles, and include basic codepoints.
Create multi-language GUIs using translated text resources.
This video application shows a new, better way to do page navigation using the getChildIndex() builtin function.
Name objects and reference objects from scripts, listeners, and layout rules, including by name and anonymously.
Targeted at the graphic designer, this video shows some basic guidelines on how to export images created in Adobe Illustrator for use in SHIPTide.
Targeted at the Adobe-based graphic designer, this video shows how to quickly create images needed for any circular gauge in Illustrator.
A step-by-step guide on how to set up a Modbus link in SHIPTide so you can easily communicate with remote devices.
A step-by-step guide on how to set up a Modbus link in SHIPTide so you can easily communicate with remote devices.
Create your first SHIP Modbus master communications link.
How to set up and use a Raw communications link in SHIPTide, including the ability to send and receive strings, bytes, bits or whatever datatype back and forth between your device and the SIM.
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