Vnet on Flowcode V6

[Carlos Viveiros]

Hello people,

In previous versions of flowcode (v4, v5) the vnet server works fine. But now on Flowcode V6 i cant't make it run.

Can someone help me with 2 (emitter and receiver) examples in flowcode v6? transmiting a single byte with rs232, running on same computer. emiting one byte in one instance of flowcode, and receiveing in another instance of flowcode?

tanks.

[medelec35]

Have you created V6 from scratch or imported from V5?
Reason for asking, if you have created from scratch RS232 In V6 requires RS232 Enable.
Whereas in FC4 & FC5 this was not required.

I don't know about Vnet but I can help with RS232 side of things.

[Carlos Viveiros]

From Scratch.

I didn't even trie create on v5, save file and open on v6. that possibility didn't cross my mind. But i will trie right now.

[Carlos Viveiros]

Can't make it work either ...

in V4 the byte arrive in the other instance of flowcode with no problem. But in V6 i cant't make it arrive in receiver instance.

[medelec35]

can you post your flowchart & I will have a look at it for you.

[Carlos Viveiros]

FlowCode V4 i create this way.

Flowcode V4 Works Fine.

[medelec35]

It looks like there is a bug with FC6 when keypad is connected to portD. Looking into that more so hopefully it can be sorted be next update.
I have connected Keypad to portB &LCD to PortD
The transmitter works fine.= as its showing correct values via hyperterminal.
I have made some additional modifications to show when program freezes i.e. seconds are counting up on the second line of LCD.

I will test the receiver side on V6 soon.

Martin

[Carlos Viveiros]

First of all, tanks for helping me.

something is wrong with the file you made, i can't open. It keeps telling "Failed to open document. Atribute <start> is not found".

[medelec35]

Hi Carlos,
Sorry my mistake, I was running the wrong version.
I have an idea.
You could load attached version into V6 and try it.
You will need to select PortB for keypad as there is a bug which defaults it to port C

Martin

[Carlos Viveiros]

Hello Martin.

Yes, the program is workin, LCD is working, and you add a few thing, and parameters, everything works fine. But initial problem was transfering a byte from rs232 in an instance of flowcode, and transfering to another instance of flowcode. But you didn't add any Injector like Vnet to send the data to another instace of flowcode. we don't need to complicate the flowchart code.
sorry my bad english.
like I said, the problem is not on sending the data to RS232 but holding the data from RS232 and putting out through Vnet to be picked again with vnet in another instace, converting with rs232 and do on..

Sorry if I am too much confused

[medelec35]

No worries, I did state at the beginning I can only help with RS232 side of things.
I was just interested in getting that working for V6.
Reason for the timer was to prove that with Keypad connected to portD of 16F877a the hardware crashed.
Which it did.

Hope you get it sorted.

Martin

[Carlos Viveiros]

Does anyone else tried working on Vnet of Flowcode V6?

[DavidA]

Hello Carlos,

We decided to retire Vnet in Flowcode v6 (its not even included in the installer as far as i know).

However we did add replacement components which should be able to simulate what you are trying to do in which could previously be done in Vnet.

The "injector" components are likely replacements for Vnet as they allow you to inject data into your other components.

Please let us know what it is you are trying to do and maybe we can offer an alternative to Vnet.

[Carlos Viveiros]

Hello Carlos,

We decided to retire Vnet in Flowcode v6 (its not even included in the installer as far as i know).

However we did add replacement components which should be able to simulate what you are trying to do in which could previously be done in Vnet.

The "injector" components are likely replacements for Vnet as they allow you to inject data into your other components.

Please let us know what it is you are trying to do and maybe we can offer an alternative to Vnet.

I'm not doing anything especific. Right now I'm only testing the componentes on Flowcode V6, I've upgrade from version 5 last week. I'm a Flowcode user since version 3, and a Hobbyist.
about Vnet the other versions of Flowcode, was quite simple. we start a server, and link 2 instances of flowcode. send and receive werever we want, and what we want. And i wish I could do the same on Flowcode 6.

Now on Flowcode 6 if we want to simulate something like that we need to transfer the programs into 2 multiprogramer boards with their components. It's an extra investment just to see the code flow, and a hard way to simulate.

Flowcode 6 is Nice, is Pretty, have a lot of new features, and so on. But previous versions are much more better to work.
A simple tool like Vnet that was present on previous versions of Flowcode, is no longer available? too sad..

Regards,
Carlos Viveiros

[Benj]

Hello Carlos,

There is an injector component which is designed to replicate the previous vNet functionality. Unfortunately I wasn't able to provide a good level of testing for this so even though it exists I don't think it works properly quite yet.

Hopefully this is something we can get fixed for the short term but there are lots of other things on the list which need doing (many of which are ease of use features) so I can't say for sure at the moment when this will be fixed and rolled out properly.

[Carlos Viveiros]

Hello Carlos,

There is an injector component which is designed to replicate the previous vNet functionality. Unfortunately I wasn't able to provide a good level of testing for this so even though it exists I don't think it works properly quite yet.

Hopefully this is something we can get fixed for the short term but there are lots of other things on the list which need doing (many of which are ease of use features) so I can't say for sure at the moment when this will be fixed and rolled out properly.

Ok, it's fine, I'll wait for the updates then...

Regards
Carlos Viveiros