Inquiry regarding Spangroup widget availability in GUI Guider 2.0 and future roadmap

[mastergbc]

Hello NXP Community,

I am currently working with GUI Guider 2.0 for our project development.

While transitioning to version 2.0, I noticed that the Spangroup widget—which was previously available in GUI Guider 1.x—seems to have been removed. Since the underlying LVGL library still maintains support for Spangroup, I was curious about the reason behind this omission in the latest release.

We found this widget quite useful for our UI design. Could you please let us know:

1. Are there any plans to re-introduce the Spangroup widget in an upcoming GUI Guider release?

2. If so, could you share a rough timeline or roadmap for the next release schedule?

Any insights or guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,

[Celeste_Liu]

Hello @mastergbc ,

Thank you for your post.

Currently, SpanGroup Widget is not available in GUI Guider 2.0, and there are no plans to add this widget in the near future.

However, we would like to better understand your requirements so that we can evaluate the request. Could you please provide more details about the functionality you are trying to achieve with SpanGroup Widget? For example, the specific use case, expected behavior, frequency of use, and the importance of this feature to your project. This information will help us assess the request and forward it to the Gui-Guider team if necessary.

In addition, could you let us know which of our products you are currently using (MCU or MPU model)? This will help us better understand your application context.

Have a nice day.

BR

Celeste

[mastergbc]

Thank you for the update.

To provide some context on our use case: in our project, we use the Spangroup widget to seamlessly mix different font styles and languages—specifically mixing English and Korean fonts within a single text block.

Currently, we have about 12 UI objects built with Spangroup. We rely heavily on this widget because when the text or length of a preceding child changes, the subsequent child text automatically reflows and wraps smoothly while maintaining alignment.

If there are no long-term plans to re-implement the Spangroup widget in GUI Guider, could you please recommend a recommended alternative or workaround to achieve this multi-font/multi-style text wrapping behavior?

Thank you again for your assistance.

Best regards,

[Celeste_Liu · Accepted solution]

Hello @mastergbc ,

I have already forwarded them to the GUI Guider development team for evaluation and will keep you updated if there are any developments.

In the meantime, a practical workaround is to use GUI Guider 2.0 for the primary UI design and code generation, and then manually add the required LVGL native spangroup implementation to the generated project.

For LVGL capabilities that are not directly exposed in the GUI Guider widget palette, custom code can be used to integrate them.

Hope it helps.

BR

Celeste