Fancy Pants

FANCYPANTS is a high performance multimedia & graphics engine for embedded devices by Fluffy Spider Technologies.

FANCYPANTS is the next generation high performance multimedia and graphics platform for embedded applications. Comprising a powerful SDK to simplify the development of rich user interfaces, and an optimised runtime environment, for maximum performance, FANCYPANTS is used by innovative creators of consumer, commercial and industrial devices.

With multiple points of abstraction, together with a plugin architecture for media, display subsystems and hardware graphics capabilities, code is portable and can automatically take advantage of new hardware, media types and codecs.

  • Increase your sales by giving the end consumer an amazing look and feel.
  • Dramatically enhance user experiences in consumer, commercial and industrial devices.
  • Produce eye-catching and user friendly interfaces with embedded multimedia.
  • Achieve this easily, reliably and cost effectively.
  • Speed time to broader markets.
  • A very small footprint, efficiency and cross platform portability increase returns.
  • Backed by world-class support, training, documentation and optional comprehensive application development services. 

FANCY PANTS Highlights

Media Rich

The ability to incorporate video into any part of the user interface , be it the wallpaper, a button or any area on-screen, is a driver for content and a major device selling point.

Two uses of this are Video Thumbs & Video Buttons . Have the thumbnails of videos playing the video at thumbnail size, and turn a video into a button.

Personalisation and Branding

The sophisticated theming capability, for the look, feel and layout of screens, maximises branding and personalisation opportunities.

Efficiency and Reduced BOM

With its ruthless runtime efficiency, FancyPants helps reduce BOM costs while its high level Object Oriented API speeds development time and hence time to market.

Cross Platform

FancyPants is designed to be cross platform, running on a variety of operating systems and a range of hardware. FancyPants' sophisticated plugin architecture means the same code will work on the desktop, and the device, and will be able to utilise the available hardware.

Unique Custom Thumbnail Shapes

We got tired of looking at squares and rectangles all the time, so we invented a way of putting different shaped thumbnails onto the screen.

Movement and Visual Effects Framework

FancyPants provides different visual effects including reflections (sometimes called the "wet floor" effect), rotation, shadows (for rectangles and non-rectangular shapes), faders, the "Warhol" effect as well as arbitrary 2D transforms. These can be applied to screen elements including images, videos and complex widgets.

Animations, followers and arbitrary 2D transforms can be easily applied to images, videos and widgets.

Screen Rotation

Full Screen Rotation in real time means that mobile movies can be watched at their highest screen resolution and that the counter terminal does not need to be rotated to show the customer.

Developer SDK

FancyPants is made up of a Desktop SDK for development and optimised runtime libraries for specific hardware and operating system targets.

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