Flowcode Help Overview: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:38, 29 June 2022

Activating Flowcode - Activating your Flowcode license
Opening Flowcode - Launching the Flowcode application
Finding Your Way Around Flowcode - Finding your way around
Creating Project - Creating your first Flowcode project and see the options available
Configuring the Chip - Configuring your device
Save and Open Projects - Saving and Opening Flowcode project files
Selecting a Template - Opening a template project file
Creating Templates - Creating your own templates
Closing Flowcode - Closing Flowcode

Icon Properties - Flowchart icons and their functionality
Adding an Icon to a Flowchart - Adding flowchart icons to your program
Editing Icon Properties - Editing the properties of a flowchart icon
Adding Comments to a Flowchart - Commenting your flowchart
Selecting Icons - Selecting icons on the flowchart
Flowchart Editing Functions - Functions to make editing your flowchart easier
Code Folding - Compressing known working code to increase screen real estate
Icon Grouping - Combining multiple icons together into a single group icon
C Code Simulation - Simulating C code in your program
C Code to Flowchart Conversion - Converting a section of C code into Flowchart icons
Code Paradigms - Coding Paradigms - Flowchart, Blocks, Pseudocode, C Code
State Diagrams - State Diagrams - Support for using the State Diagram coding paradigm
Tab Tear Off - Multi Monitor Support - How to manage tabs on multi-monitor systems

Creating a New Macro - Creating a new flowchart macro or subroutine
Editing and Deleting Macros - Editing a macro and removing a macro from your program
Using the Project Explorer - Features of the project explorer designed to help simplify programming
Exporting a Macro - Exporting a macro from within Flowcode
Importing a Macro - Importing a macro into Flowcode

Mathematical Functions - Built in routines designed to help with mathematical operations such as Sin() and Float
String Manipulation Functions - Built in routines designed to help with string manipulation
Undo and Redo - Undo and Redo operations and shortcuts
Icon Annotations - Icon annotations
Find and Replace - Ability to search within your flowcode project to replace specific text with alternate text

Compiler Toolchains - Toolchains used to compile to the various platforms Flowcode supports.
Ribbon Toolbar - Detailed description of the Flowcode ribbon toolbars.
Project Options - Detailed help on the Project Options window
Global Options - Detailed help on the Global Options window
Chip View - The chip view window
Properties Panel - The properties panel
Supplementary Code - Supplementary code and its usage
Simulation Debugger - Control over the simulation speed and view simulated variable values, also known previously as the watch window
Saving Images in Flowcode - Creating images of your flowchart source
Auto Documentation - Auto documentation features to speed up development
Window Layouts - The window layouts manager

Components - Information about what a component is and how they work inside the Flowcode environment.
Common Components - Information on some of the more commonly used components
Selecting Component Macros - Information on how to use component macros
Component Help Files - How to get access to component help via Flowcode
Components - Component help overview
Component Properties - Information on how to use component properties
Component Tree - Information regarding the component tree hierarchy
Replacing a Component - Replacing one component with another
CAL Components - Overview of code abstraction layer components
DSP Components - Overview of digital signal processing components
Component Directories - Information on creating your own components directories
Editing Key Mappings - Assigning keyboard presses to functionality during simulation
Remappable Peripheral Pins - Assigning pins to peripherals on devices with re-mappable functionality.

Compiling a Flowchart to a Chip - Information on how to compile a flowchart into machine code
Internal Oscillator - Specifics on using an internal oscillator
Phase Locked Loop (PLL) - Specifics on using a PLL frequency multiplier
Interrupts - Built in interrupts for your hardware
Custom Interrupts - Custom interrupts for your hardware
Supporting Third Party Programming Tools - Using 3rd party programmers such as PICkit and Arduino
Viewing Code Output - Viewing the code generated by Flowcode
Managing Compiler Options - Overview of the compiler options settings
FCD Data Collection - Chip definition files and how to collect data from them

Dynamic Updates - Getting updates and using older versions
Reporting a Bug - How to report a bug in Flowcode
Licensed Compiler - Compiler specifics and license agreement
Technical Support - Information on how to get further support
Migrating from Older Versions - Help on updating your projects from previous Flowcode versions
Version Updates - See what features have been added to Flowcode for each version.

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 *[[Properties_Panel|Properties Panel]] - The properties panel
 *[[Supplementary_Code|Supplementary Code]] - Supplementary code and its usage
-*[[Watch_Window|Watch Window]] - Control over the simulation speed and view simulated variable values
+*[[Simulation_Debugger|Simulation Debugger]] - Control over the simulation speed and view simulated variable values, also known previously as the watch window
 *[[Saving_Images_in_Flowcode|Saving Images in Flowcode]] - Creating images of your flowchart source
 *[[Auto_Documentation|Auto Documentation]] - Auto documentation features to speed up development