Getting Started with MCL-Designer V4 > How to Start MCL-Designer V4

Overview

MCL-Designer V4 provides 2 major features - Speech and Navigation (GPS functions within MCL-Designer) - via a specific subscription. Since Speech and Navigation are considered extra features to the standard MCL-Designer V4, the corresponding software package is referred to as an add-on within the MCL-Designer environment.

Before you can make use of these extra features in project development, you are required to perform the following steps:

1. After acquiring a subscription with extra features (ex: Speech and/or Navigation), register it to your MCL-Mobility Platform account.

Refer to the MCL-Mobility Platform User Guide for information on adding a subscription.

2. Activate the registered subscription in MCL-Designer (see MCL-Designer Activation (Subscription)).

3. Use the wizard to download/install the corresponding software package.

If the subscription includes speech attributes, you will also have to access the "Language Resources Manager" to download the necessary language resources (ASR/TTS language files). These language resources will be used for project simulations (with MCL-Simulator). See The Language Resources Manager.

To Install an Add-on Package

Step-by-step

1. Activate the subscription with the extra feature(s) within MCL-Designer (see MCL-Designer Activation (Subscription)).

2. Click to conclude the activation and open the wizard for the Add-on Package installation.

The add-ons listed for installation (ex: Navigation; Voice Core) depend on your MCL-Designer V4 subscription.

If there is an error during the add-on download, use the button to download the add-on again and proceed with the installation.

Ex: An error occurred during the download of an MCL-Voice V4 add-on:

3. Click to proceed.

If you want to postpone, click . You will be able to work within the MCL-Designer environment but you will NOT have access to some of the options related to the "Add-on Package". The Add-on Package installation wizard will open every time you launch MCL-Designer until the add-on software is downloaded/installed.

4. If the Voice Core Add-on is being installed, you will view a "EULA" window. Any other "Add-on Packages" (ex: Navigation) do NOT require "EULA" acceptance, so you go straight to the "download" window.

Proceed as follows within the "EULA" window:

a. Read the "EULA" document.

b. Click to continue with the installation.

If required, click to return to the previous wizard window OR to stop the installation.

If it is detected that your PC does NOT have enough disk space, a warning window opens with information on disk space and the possibility to select a different download/installation folder.

5. Wait for the software download to conclude.

6. Complete the add-on installation by clicking .