TRITON MHEG-5 Authoring Tool

User Interface Application authoring tool and MHEG-5 application generator

Benefits of Triton include:

• Rapid prototyping of MHEG applications
• Construction of professional GUI applications.
• Speed of UI application design.
• Reduced total cost of ownership for UI applications.
• Simplified UI application development oriented around tools designers are familiar with.
• In-built Code editor
• Generation of MHEG-5 application code at the click of a button.

Using Triton any designer, familiar with tools such as Microsoft's Visio or Macromedia's Dreamweaver, will be able to build dynamic and visually impressive graphical UI applications.

Example above of an MHEG-5 Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) application

Key Features

The key features of the Triton IDE are:

• A "What-you-see-is-what-you-get" style of editor.
• A drag and drop style scene editor.
• Ease of use and simplicity of design.
• Interactive design of scenes.
• A layered visual editor for sophisticated screen construction.
• A Graphical Editor for inter scene linking.
• Library of standard components.
• Graphical component property editors.
• Spell checking of all text.
• Colour palettes and Font selectors.

The following diagram illustrates Triton being used to develop a simple application.

GUI Library

Using the GUI component library facilities of Triton it is also possible to:

• Construct custom graphical components.
• Building a library of reusable component sets.
• Providing a standardised, corporate look and feel.
• Which can be shared within teams, across projects and organisations?

Triton also provides common IDE based functionality including:

• Project based organisation of the workspace
• Application wide and project wide settings.
• Integration with version control systems.
• Draggable, resizable, views.
• Application Validation

Further Information

For further information or to arrange a demonstration please contact Gail Rennolds at gail.rennolds@oceanbluesoftware.co.uk