PC Developer Getting Started Guide

Work in progress

Introduction

PC Developer allows you to easily create programs to control and monitor devices external to the PC. But it is much more than that. Flowcode PC Developer allows you to create general purpose programs with user interfaces that calculate, plot and display information. It can gather information for from your desk, from inside your building, in your town, and across the world over the internet.

Flowcode PC Developer uses the same programming interface as Flowcode Embedded. So if you know Flowcode you can now easily design Windows apps for your own use or for royalty free distribution to others.

One particular strength is that Flowcode PC Developer contains a large number of communication components that allow you to create distributed control, data gathering and analytical systems so it is particularly good at creating PC Developer like systems using Application Programming Interfaces (API). Support for popular USB, Bluetooth, and Web based hardware platforms like Modbus PLCs, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Ethernet, ESP32 and other systems are provided.

Getting started

To start web developer, run Flowcode and select NEW PROJECT

Select App Developer tab then select Blank PC then New Blank PC Developer Project

Select File, Save As... and name your project e.g. My First PCD Project. The project file extension will be .fcsx

Creating a basic project with a shape and text

Select Component Libraries from the top menu.