Why use EmPresent

EmPresent addresses a number of challenges faced by embedded application developers. These challenges could be:

• Creating sophisticated user interfaces for embedded devices using libraries or primitive tools forcing the developer to write substantial amounts of custom code.
• Working on applications that are typically tied to a processor and OS.
• Factoring in time to wait for the hardware to get ready to test the application.
• Dealing with the absence of a common development environment with which one could develop maintainable and re-usable application code.

EmPresent: Meeting Challenges
Designed to deal with challenges of Graphical User Interface (GUI) development in the embedded world, EmPresent is well placed to alleviate the pain points of embedded application developers.

1. Rich GUI: Developers can build rich and powerful GUIs for embedded applications on their desktop with 40% less effort than when using traditional methods of development. In addition, they can use extensive drawing primitives to support upper layers of GUI development.
2. Ready made Widgets: Developers also have the additional advantage of using an extensive set of widgets that meet varied requirements of applications.
3. Cross-Platform: Cross-Platform: The application can be used across platforms in minimum time and with minimum effort simply by "regenerating" the code for that platform.
4. Cost-Effective: It facilitates savings of at least 40% in embedded GUI development effort.
5. Early Development: It provides the option to design and develop a GUI even when the hardware is not ready.
6. Internationalization: It can be used to target new geographies because of its easy internationalization capabilities.
7. Automated Code Generation/Regeneration: It provides the flexibility to create new or append existing code.
8. Rapid Prototyping: It is accompanied by a desktop based Integrated Development Environment that allows rapid prototyping. It also has the ability to generate platform specific code.
9. Flexible Windowing System: This enables the development of embedded applications with windowing capabilities provided by a windows manager, widget manager and a font manager.