Difference between revisions of "Flowcode Help Overview"

Revision as of 10:50, 1 July 2019

Activating Flowcode - Activating your Flowcode license
Opening Flowcode - Launching the Flowcode application
Finding Your Way Around Flowcode - Finding your way around
Creating Flowcharts - Creating your first Flowcode flowchart and see the options available
Selecting a Target Chip - Selecting the target microcontroller device
Configuring the Chip - Configuring your device
Opening an Existing Flowchart - Opening an existing .FCFX Flowcode project file
Selecting a Template - Opening a template project file
Saving a Flowchart - Saving your program
Creating Templates - Creating your own templates
Closing Flowcode - Closing Flowcode

Icon Properties - Flowchart icons and their functionality
Adding an Icon to a Flowchart - Adding flowchart icons to your program
Editing Icon Properties - Editing the properties of a flowchart icon
Adding Comments to a Flowchart - Commenting your flowchart
Selecting Icons - Selecting icons on the flowchart
Flowchart Editing Functions - Functions to make editing your flowchart easier
Code Folding - Compressing known working code to increase screen real estate
Icon Grouping - Combining multiple icons together into a single group icon
C Code Simulation - Simulating C code in your program
C Code to Flowchart Conversion - Converting a section of C code into Flowchart icons
Code Paradigms - Coding Paradigms - Flowchart, Blocks, Pseudocode, C Code
Tab Tear Off - Multi Monitor Support - How to manage tabs on multi-monitor systems

Creating a New Macro - Creating a new flowchart macro or subroutine
Editing and Deleting Macros - Editing a macro and removing a macro from your program
Using the Project Explorer - Features of the project explorer designed to help simplify programming
Exporting a Macro - Exporting a macro from within Flowcode
Importing a Macro - Importing a macro into Flowcode

Mathematical Functions - Built in routines designed to help with mathematical operations such as Sin() and Float
String Manipulation Functions - Built in routines designed to help with string manipulation
Undo and Redo - Undo and Redo operations and shortcuts
Icon Annotations - Icon annotations
Find and Replace - Ability to search within your flowcode project to replace specific text with alternate text

Panels Where And Why - What the panels do and how they help you design your system
Choosing your Simulation Panel - Information about choosing the correct panel
Dashboard Panel - More in depth information on the dashboard panel
System Panel - More in depth information on the system panel
Zooming the View - Zooming in and out on panels
Camera Control - Controlling the camera looking at the panel
Object Position - Object positioning on the panels
Local and World Space - Local vs World space regarding coordinates
Object Scale - Objects and their scale
Object Rotation - Rotating objects
Working With Primitives - Using primitive objects inside Flowcode
Working With Meshes - Using meshes inside Flowcode

Components - Information about what a component is and how they work inside the Flowcode environment.
Common Components - Information on some of the more commonly used components
Selecting Component Macros - Information on how to use component macros
Component Help Files - How to get access to component help via Flowcode
Components - Component help overview
Component Properties - Information on how to use component properties
Component Tree - Information regarding the component tree hierarchy
Replacing a Component - Replacing one component with another
CAL Components - Overview of code abstraction layer components
DSP Components - Overview of digital signal processing components
Component Directories - Information on creating your own components directories
Editing Key Mappings - Assigning keyboard presses to functionality during simulation
Remappable Peripheral Pins - Assigning pins to peripherals on devices with re-mappable functionality.

New Component Features - Additional component creation features added in Flowcode 8
Creating a Property - How to create a property
IO Properties - How to create and use IO properties
Component Configuration - Overview of the component creation panel managers
Customising A Component - Creating a new customised version of a component
Assigning Code to an Existing Component - Complementing or overriding an existing components functionality
Base Components - The base components and their function
Using CAL Components - Creating a component using CAL functionality (I2C / SPI / UART etc)
Using A Base Component - Creating a new component using a base component
Exercises - Worked exercises including creating components
Example - Number Conversions - Creating a helper component to help convert between number systems Decimal, Hexadecimal and Binary
Example - Creating a two-wheeled robot - Creating a 2 wheeled robot from scratch (simulation & downloadable)

Compiling a Flowchart to a Chip - Information on how to compile a flowchart into machine code
Internal Oscillator - Specifics on using an internal oscillator
Phase Locked Loop (PLL) - Specifics on using a PLL frequency multiplier
Interrupts - Built in interrupts for your hardware
Custom Interrupts - Custom interrupts for your hardware
Supporting Third Party Programming Tools - Using 3rd party programmers such as PICkit and Arduino
Viewing Code Output - Viewing the code generated by Flowcode
Managing Compiler Options - Overview of the compiler options settings
FCD Data Collection - Chip definition files and how to collect data from them

Dynamic Updates - Getting updates and using older versions
Reporting a Bug - How to report a bug in Flowcode
Licensed Compiler - Compiler specifics and license agreement
Technical Support - Information on how to get further support
Migrating from Older Versions - Help on updating your projects from previous Flowcode versions
Version Updates - See what features have been added to Flowcode for each version.

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 *[[String_Manipulation_Functions|String Manipulation Functions]] - Built in routines designed to help with string manipulation
 *[[Undo_and_Redo|Undo and Redo]] - Undo and Redo operations and shortcuts
-*[[Disabling_Icons|Disabling Icons]] - Disabling flowchart icons to comment out sections of code
 *[[Icon_Annotations|Icon Annotations]] - Icon annotations
 *[[Find_and_Replace|Find and Replace]] - Ability to search within your flowcode project to replace specific text with alternate text