Flowcode Help Overview
Getting Started
- 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
Program Editing
- 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
Macros
- 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
Functions
- 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
Variables
- Creating Variables - How to create a variable
- Variable Types - Variable types and their meanings
- Editing Variables - How to edit a variable
- Handles - Handle variables and their function within the system
- Typecasting - Variable type casting, applications and usage
- Finite State Machines - Programming tutorial on using state machines
Panels
- Choosing your Simulation Panel - Information about choosing the correct panel
- Dashboard Panel - More in depth information on the dashboard panel
- System Panel - More in depth information on the system panel
- Zooming the View - Zooming in and out on panels
- Camera Control - Controlling the camera looking at the panel
- Object Position - Object positioning on the panels
- Local and World Space - Local vs World space regarding coordinates
- Object Scale - Objects and their scale
- Object Rotation - Rotating objects
- Working With Primitives - Using primitive objects inside Flowcode
- Working With Meshes - Using meshes inside Flowcode
Tools and Views
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Chip Specifics
- 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
Support
- 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.