After ADE is installed successfully and the version is confirmed, users can start to design HMI in ADE.

First time when ADE is launched, in the center of main ADE window, a pop-up window Create a New Dsign is shown:

The New Design window allows users to choose thier target product. The target products are sorted based on the screen size, resolution and touch control type. Once users choose a target product by clicking the the image of it. Then, a corresponding template will appear. This template includes a blank as well as the I/O configuration page. Users can start to design their HMI in the blank page.

On the other hand, if the ADE is not launched at the first time, the main window will stay in Recent Designs.

The Recent Designs records at most 20 recently created designs. The Recent Designs offers convenience for users to search the recently created works.

In both Create a New Design and Recent Designs windows, there are two tabs, Grid View and List View, allowing users to choose different representation methods. After choosing List View, users can see the following result:

In the “Recent Designs” window, users can remove any design by clicking the remove button in the top right conner of each design:

Users can pin any recent design in the Recent Designs window by clicking the pin icon. Doing so can prevent the pinned recent design from being removed or replaced by other designs.

After the installation, the below ADE icon will show up in user’s Windows desktop:

Users can double click this ADE click for launching it. Or users can search Acorn Development Environment for launching ADE.

Once ADE is launched, users can see the following window:

This ADE window declares that the ADE is installed and executed successfully. ADE is ready to go.

Please ckick the top left icon  for calling out the system menu of ADE. For users that are not familiar with English, they can click Select Language for switching to a different language.

ADE Version

ADE provides version number for identification. It is highly recommended for users to check the version number for avoiding any compaptibility issue. If users intend to share ADE projects with others, users had better check the version number first.

How to identify ADE version number:

Please click the top left icon to call out the system menu.

Click About…, then About ADE window will show up. In this window, the ADE version number is listed along with the copyright declaration and the release note.

Please visit IOT’s website ADE for downloading ADE installation program.

Install ADE

➊ Once the downloading is finished, please open ADE Installation Program.

➋ Once the ADE Installation program starts to run, Select Target Folder pop-up window will show up. Users can select or enter the target foler to which ADe will be installed.

➌ Once the Insall is clicked, the Installing pop-up window will show up. Please wait for the installation to be completed.

➍ Once the installation is done, you can decide whether to open ADE or not.