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Hi. We were looking at getting a 6.0.4 out asap, but I have had a lot of presentations and training to do in the last week. Now back on coding we will be able to get something out, hopefully by the end of next week. We want this patch to address stability and compile issues, so this should go in. Ch...

Hello.

Thanks, we will look into this.

We were due for a 6.0.4, but want to get things nice and stable for this patch, so if I can find the issue will get it in that.

Jonny

Hello. I see this is an error in the wiki - I will fix this when I get a chance. You have a sim command "Switch on". This sets the value of the property 'color'. The value is also quoted, and shouldn't be. How the SetValue call works is that the argument is automatically cast to the type the propert...

Hi. Hopefully (if there is time) we will roll out 'lock aspect ratio' into each component natively. In the meantime, locking the pot aspect ratio is done in the components code and I am told there is a bug with this. We should be able to fix that in 6.0.4, but in the meantime if you ensure the X Y a...

Hi. The problem with C code is that there is not enough context to simulate a snippet reliably. Take the code: A * B; This may mean 'A multiplied by B', or it may mean 'B is a pointer to a variable of type A'. Without prior context (i.e. a whole program) we can not tell for sure which meaning to exe...

Hi. Also, can you post your flowchart up to now please? We can take a look and see if there are any issues. It may be there is a step missing from the wiki, I will have a scan through this and see. It would be easier to find if there is a missing step in your program. It sounds like, from your descr...

Afternoon Brendan. 1. I find the pop-up box, declaring total run time after stopping code execution, merely irritating and never useful. The ability to disable it would be welcome. This has been asked for a few times. It is something I keep meaning to do, and is not a big job at all so I will try to...

Hi. On download the LUT will return whatever bit-width you set it to. Flwocode can not (at the moment) dynamically alter the variable type returned from a macro. So in simulation it always returns a 32-bit integer. I believe the bit-width is a property of the LUT. It is always best to stick with the...

Hi Jay. There have been a number of queries around 3D. Perhaps I should put down a train of thought as to (one of) the reasons behind this. Flowcode v5 used bitmaps to represent components. These are fast for the system to render but are time consuming for someone to hand-draw, especially when anima...

Evening. This issue should be fixed in the next release - the converter was not re-mapping the ports correctly for 16-bit ports.

Jonny

We are very busy with presentations at the moment and I would like to spend time on any patch to ensure it is correct. Perhaps in the next week or so we could release a patch - it would be good to get changes like this out the door, but its finding the opportunity to thoroughly test before releasing...

Hello Deiter. If you wish to do things in 2D as v5 previously did, I would suggest the dashboard panel. In the next patch there are options to completely disable the system panel - everything will be done on the dashboard, which is more v5-like. Unfortunately you can not just 'switch-off' 3D. The sy...

Hi. I have not used 'numeric data' in the human interface component. The feature added is not for the component, but a feature of Flowcode. On dragging an RS232 component and an injector on to the panel, the injector settings are: 000008_Flowcode1 _.png The console when I add in byte mode looks like...

Hello. That does seem strange.

What happens if you step through the program instead of just clicking 'run' to simulate? Do you see anything change on the LCD?

Jonny

Hello. Maybe it is my lack of knowledge in this area, but can you give more details of what you are after? If you require interrupts to be set up to sample a sensor on a timeslice, there is no direct facility to do this, but it should be easy enough to do in Flowcode. You could write a component to ...

Hi. No, the evaluation version is fully features.

Have you read this post? Perhaps it will help:
http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/mmforum ... 54&t=13084

Jonny

Evening. Thanks for the suggestions, some good things to go on there that would help improve the console. I didn't find the vnet in V6. Is it already available? We took VNet out in V6, as the VNet stuff was done individually for each component in v5, so we could not see how this would roll out to ot...

Hi. Can you tell me what steps you are taking to try this? If you: Ensure your Flowcode is 6.0.3 Add the components required to get the console you want Right-click to get the context menu and ensure 'Show data bytes' is selected Make sure the green '00000000' is visible by typing any character in (...

Hi. Things are very hectic at the moment (as always, it seems) due to upcoming presentations, but I can add these to the list and get them in when I can. I would imagine that everyone who has posted on this thread has used a scope a good deal more than me, so suggestions for functionality are welcom...

Hi.

There is a blog post here: http://matrixmultimedia.com/blog/?p=146

This details how to get an existing C routine 9or library call) defined in a Flowcode component. This wouldprobably be the start of this,if you have a header file with the routines you want in it.

Jonny

Hi. Yeah, the scope can show overlays like that. The default decoding works off the graphic, so is affected by aliasing, but it will work off the 'raw' data like the component packet decoding can eventually. This will work between any points, including on analogue streams. For the cursors, hover the...

Hi. The simulation worked like that internally for a while - every so often the simulation needs to let the rest of the system have a go, and this used a moving average filter to approximate the number of ticks per second and thus decide when to 'breathe'. Problem is that each instruction does not e...

Evening. Just one question How can we get sope to show time in microseconds/milliseconds or seconds. Not use to a timebase in ticks. Or is that an impossible request? When used with some profiling hardware such as the EB006v9, we can accurately gauge the meaning of 'ticks', and one tick will be a ce...

Hi Martin. You can zoom the scope in and out using ctrl-mouse wheel. I am not sure it is in 6.0.3, but the up/down cursors also work with this. Wherever the mouse is situated on the timeline should remain at that point when scrolled. On the top bar of the scope there are two orange marks. These deno...

Morning. Yes, I agree this could do with an interface. The scope and console were added to support components - idea is a component adds whatever output it requires. I will look into this and possibly add some UI to the front end of the scope. In the meantime, here is a component that allows up to 4...