Import Touch Project into Atmel Studio

 Objective

This article provides information on importing a QTouch® project generated from START to Atmel® Studio.

 Materials

Software Tools

Tool About Installers
Installation
Instructions
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Atmel® Studio
Integrated Development Environment

 Procedure

1

Create a QTouch Project

Go to START and create your QTouch project. Detailed information on how to create a QTouch project in START can be found on the Generate User Board Touch Project page.

2

Export

Once you've configured your project and are ready to export, ensure that the Atmel Studio option is selected. In this example, the project name is qt5_atmega324pb_xpro. We will be referencing this project throughout the rest of the step-by-step instructions on this page.

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Download the pack to the desired folder by clicking on the DOWNLOAD PACK button. By default, it downloads to C:\Users\user-name\Downloads.

3

Open Atmel Studio

After you open Atmel Studio, select File > Import > Atmel Start Project.

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4

Atmel Start Importer

  • Browse and select the downloaded .atzip file
  • Browse and select the desired project location
  • Provide a project name
  • Click OK to generate the project
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5

Project Creation

Project will be created and all files included.

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6

Initialization Code

By default, only the initialization code is called in main() as shown below.

7

Modify main()

Modify the content of main.c as follows.
Include touch_example.h file at the top of the main file after inclusion of atmel_start.h file as #include "touch_example.h" .

Note: An example on using the touch APIs and getting touch sensor state is given in the touch_example.c file.

8

Build Project

The project is ready to be built and tested. Press F7 to build the project.
The built .hex can be found in the ..\Debug\ project folder.

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