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OLinuXino Android / Linux boards and System On Modules => iMX233 => Topic started by: tomasmigone on November 25, 2012, 04:29:31 PM

Title: iMx233 quick question
Post by: tomasmigone on November 25, 2012, 04:29:31 PM
Hi, just a quick question.
Im begining development with olinuxino maxi (first time with embedded linux). i already have arch linux booting from it.
for our project we need the olinuxino to display a window with one or two buttons on it, and some graphs.
it doesnt need to have fancy graphics at all.
what's the easiest way (lib, gui, etc) arround it?
Title: Re: iMx233 quick question
Post by: lordlothar on November 25, 2012, 04:45:06 PM
First of all, where do you want to display the graphics? Will your display be on TV PAL/NTSC video output, or via UEXT interface? If the case is the first, you may try QT libraries or GTK, which both work on top of the framebuffer, so no X server (desktop environment) required,so less memory required. But I don't know if iMx233-olinuxino has sufficient memory even for this. The second option though is by using something like this (http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/attaching-color-lcd-to-imx233-olinuxino-maxi-with-mod-lcd6610/).
Title: Re: iMx233 quick question
Post by: venatici on December 03, 2012, 11:09:06 PM
Sdl library works very nice and it is easy.