Migrating to V6
Flowcode v6 will automatically attempt to migrate Flowcode v5 projects and components 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 are basically bitmaps placed 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 available 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 now pre-defined based on the contents of the chip-definition files(i.e the number and type of channels the chip supports), 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. If this field is blank when you have migrated your project you will need to set the channel appropriately.
Component migration table
| Component | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| GLCD | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| LED | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| LED RGB | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| LED 7Seg Single | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| LED 7Seg Quad | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Quad Encoder | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| PWM | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Servo | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Accelerometer | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| One-Wire | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Keypad | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Stepper Motor | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Formula Flowcode | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| RC5 | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| LCD Display | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| USB HID | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| USB Serial | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| USB_Slave | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| FAT16 | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| MIDI | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| CAN | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| CAN2 | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| ADC | Mapped | No problems reported.
Note1: Styles, labels & custom images are not carried over from version 5. |
| Bluetooth | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Custom | DROPPED | This component will not be migrated from V5 due to the new component creation features. |
| Custom2 | DROPPED | This component will not be migrated from V5 due to the new component creation features. |
| EEprom | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| I2C | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| IrDA | Mapped | No problems reported.
Note1: 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). |
| Lin Master | Mapped | Awaiting fucntional test. |
| Lin Slave | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| RFiD | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| RS232 | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| SPI | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| SwitchBank | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| TCP-IP | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Webserver | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Zigbee | Mapped | No problems reported |
| GPS | Mapped | No problems reported |
| Speech | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| Switch | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| RF | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| GSM | Mapped | No problems reported |
| WLAN | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Level | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Add | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Control | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Delay | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP FFT | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Filter | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Freq Generator | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Input | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Inverse FFT | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Kalman Filter | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Output | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP Scale | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| DSP System | Mapped | No problems reported. |
| MIAC | Mapped | No problems reported. |
