Stop Watch.

[medelec35]

I had posted about this on version 3, and would still like to se it implemented within version 4.

If this real time is then resettable, you set a break point and time to zero at the start of a loop, and set a break point at the end of a loop,
and real time is displayed how long loop to take to complete

[medelec35]

Comments are welcome... Good or bad!

[Steve]

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

[medelec35]

Suppose you have a loop and would like to time how long loop takes to complete.
When simulation is paused at the start of the loop, you can zero the stop watch. Then simulation runs for duration of loop you would like to time. At the end of the loop i.e where you have set a breakpoint, the stop watch stops, displaying the time that would of passed if ran on real hardware.

[Steve]

I see. It's a good idea, but I'm not sure it's possible.

The problem is that Flowcode produces C and this C is turned into code by an external compiler. The exact nature of this compiled code is unknown to Flowcode, and even simple actions can be optimized by the compiler in different ways. And the optimization options for the compiler can be set in different ways by the user.

Also note that different versions of Flowcode (PIC, AVR, ARM) use different compilers, and hence have different timings.

[medelec35]

Thanks Steve. Its not a problem if can not be implemented.
I was just thinking of some ideas.