From [1] http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2680&dDocName=en544475

The Microchip Graphics Display Designer (GDD) is an MPLAB IDE plug-in and a visual design tool that provides customers with a quick and easy way of creating graphical user interface (GUI) screens for embedded applications on Microchip MCUs. The GDD is a design tool created for use with the Microchip Graphics Library.

For customers who are familiar with MPLAB IE, PIC MCUs, Microchip Graphics Library and MPLAB C Compilers, the GDD simplifies coding for the GUI screens. Customers can draw, move, resize, and delete screen objects, create multiple static screens, assign an LCD controller, select graphics-related configurations, and generate output source files. These source files can be compiled with the Microchip Graphics Library using the Microchip C compilers for PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 MCUs.

GDD eliminates the need to manually calculate the X/Y coordinates for on-screen object placements. Nearly all the graphical objects (widgets) from the Microchip Graphics Library are supported in GDD.

GDD provides “what you see is what you get” results by using the same rendering code from the Microchip Graphics Library to draw objects on the PC screen. This guarantees that what you see on the PC screen is what you get on the target embedded screen.

Graphical resources can be imported into GDD for application development, including custom fonts and bitmap images. Various Microchip Graphics Library configuration settings can be set in GDD, including display resolution, color depth, LCD driver, etc. Code generation feature generates ANSI C code for PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 MCUs. The code generated by this plug-in can be compiled with source files from the Microchip Graphics Library developed for Microchip’s PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 MCUs.

Advanced users still have the option to call APIs from the Microchip Graphics Library directly without using GDD. This provides a finer control over the flow and behavior of the application.

Released version: 2.0.0.9c – Supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (dated 09/17/09)

The GDD v2.0.0.9c works with Graphics Library v1.75b only, and not with the newer Graphics Library v2.00 or later.

To download Graphics Library v1.75b, [2] click here to download.