touchGFX英文开发文档参考手册4.16版本1.pdf

Version: 4.16

TouchGFX Documentation

Welcome to the official documentation of TouchGFX!

If you are new to this documentation and/or TouchGFX, we recommend that you read on to get an

overview of what this documentation has to offer. The table of contents in the sidebar should let you

easily access the documentation for your topic of interest. You can also use the search function in the

top right corner.

About this documentation

The TouchGFX documentation is targeting software developers with a basic skill-set within C++ and

embedded GUI development on STM32. Newcomers to Embedded GUI Development are supported in

the section Basic Concepts, while step by step guides and tutorials support everyone towards a

smooth learning in TouchGFX development as well.

We would really like to improve this documentation in any way possible. If you don’t understand

something, or cannot find what you are looking for in the docs, help us make the documentation better

by letting us know in the forum!

Version: 4.16

What is TouchGFX?

TouchGFX is delivered as one X-Cube package the X-Cube-TouchGFX.

With this you have all you need to do a full implementation of your GUI application for STM32 based

hardware. TouchGFX consists of three main parts - two tools and one framework.

TouchGFX Designer: An easy-to-use GUI builder in TouchGFX that lets you create the visual

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Installation

TouchGFX is distributed as an X-CUBE-TOUCHGFX zip file which has the following components inside:

TouchGFX Designer - Build a UI through a Windows-based GUI Builder

TouchGFX Generator - Create a custom TouchGFX HAL through CubeMX

TouchGFX Engine - The TouchGFX C++ framework that drives the UI application

Prototyping on STM32 Evaluation kits

If your intention is to simply try TouchGFX Designer and perhaps do some prototyping on STM32

Evaluation kits, refer to the section Installing TouchGFX Designer.

Installing TouchGFX Designer

Download X-CUBE-TOUCHGFX from the ST.com official website to anywhere on your hard drive and

extract it.

Inside the extracted folder, you will find the TouchGFX .msi installer in the following path:

Double-clicking the .msi file will bring up the installer. Follow the instructions to complete the

Installing STM32CubeProgrammer

After downloading STM32CubeProgrammer from STM32CubeProgrammer download location,

uncompress the downloaded .zip file and launch the .exe installer file. Then Follow the

instructions to complete the installation process.