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Revision as of 14:31, 11 July 2013

Flowcode v6 will automatically attempt to migrate Flowcode v5 into the required v6 format. While the program attempts to re-create your panel as much as possible and maintain your components configuration settings there may be a requirement for the user to make minor adjustments to the imported program. Please bear in mind the following points:

Positioning of components on the panel

In version 5 the panel is a two-dimensional pane. Each component was written using visual basic, exported and registered as a OCX component which would be called by earlier versions of Flowcode (3 through 5). Graphical representation of these components were basically bitmaps onto a windows panel. In version 6 the panel is now a three-dimensional space where the components will be placed, and each component has been re-designed purely using the v6 component creator. Therefore based on v5 positions an estimate is made with regards to placement in v6. This may not necessarily be exactly as you would see it in version 5 so you may need to make adjustments to the layout of any components that appear on the panel.

Software & Hardware channel selection

In version 5, components that had the ability to choose between software and hardware channels, however this was a manual choice and the user would have to determine which hardware channels were avaialble based on the chip-type. The components were hard-coded to offer 4 hardware channels regardless of channels available on the chip. In version 6, the number of hardware channels that are presented to the user are based on the contents of the chip-definition files, so if a chip supports two hardware channels then in Flowcode v6 the user will be presented with the option to choose software, hardware channel one and hardware channel two. If a user had chosen hardware channel 4 in the v5 program, this value will not get migrated if the chip-type in flowcode v6 does not have channel 4 as an option.

Component migration table

Component Status Consideration
GLCD Caution In version 5 the type of GLCD was selected from a seletion of radio buttons. When migrating to version 6, the appropraite GCLD component is chosen based on this setting (there are multiple GLCD components in v6 to choose from). Partially complete - macros todo.
LED Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
LED RGB Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
LED 7Seg Single Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
LED 7Seg Quad Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
Quad Encoder Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
PWM Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
Servo Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
Accelerometer Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
One-Wire Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
Keypad Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
Stepper Motor Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
Formula Flowcode Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
RC5 Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
LCD Display Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
USB HID Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
USB Serial Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
RUSB_Slave Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
FAT16 Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
MIDI Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
CAN Caution Partially complete - macros todo.
CAN2 Todo Awaiting mapping
ADC Todo Awaiting mapping
Bluetooth Todo Awaiting mapping
Custom Todo Awaiting mapping
Custom2 Todo Awaiting mapping
EEprom Todo Awaiting mapping
I2C Todo Awaiting mapping
IrDA In Progress For this component you will have to set CTS/RTS pins manually. This is because CTS/RTS port/pin values were not saved for this component in v5(bug).
LEDS Todo Awaiting mapping
Lin Master Todo Awaiting mapping
Lin Slave Todo Awaiting mapping
RFiD Todo Awaiting mapping
RS232 Todo Awaiting mapping
SPI Todo Awaiting mapping
SwitchBank Todo Awaiting mapping
TCP-IP Todo Awaiting mapping
Webserver Todo Awaiting mapping
WebServer2 Todo Awaiting mapping
Zigbee Todo Awaiting mapping
GPS Todo Awaiting mapping
Speech Todo Awaiting mapping
Switch Todo Awaiting mapping
RF Todo Awaiting mapping
GSM Todo Awaiting mapping
WLAN Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Level Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Add Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Control Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Delay Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP FFT Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Filter Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Freq Generator Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Input Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Inverse FFT Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Kalman Filter Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Output Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP Scale Todo Awaiting mapping
DSP System Todo Awaiting mapping
MIAC Todo Awaiting mapping