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Hi James, We are always interested in new ideas for components and we do develop new components from time to time. It is a question of finding the time to do them. Please email the code to me and I will have a quick look at it with a view to driving it from FlowCode. If it looks easy to incorporate,...

As you may be aware, FlowCode has already been translated into a number of different languages. At the moment, I think it is available in the following languages: * English * French * German * Dutch * Spanish * Finnish * Italian (I think) * Chinese - simple We would like to increase the number of la...

Here's a couple of suggestions for making it a bit more customisable (as per Jim's requests in another thread). I've not tested them myself, but they should work: Suggestion 1 - Use a FlowCode variable All FlowCode variables are accessible from embedded C code, including most of that stored in the F...

Chet and Marc:

Do you want a PWM component that utilises a PICmicro's PWM peripheral, or do you require a general PWM component that can be run with PICmicros without a PWM peripheral?

Obviously, the latter will be more complicated - but I can see that the former could be quite easy to do.

As promised, here's a quick "how to" for those of you wanting to speed up the ADC: The code for performing ADC conversion is actually contained in the appropriate FCD file for each chip (these can be found in the same directory as the FlowCode EXE). This is because different chips may use different ...

Wow - all of this feedback is fantastic and we'll try our best to accommodate it. Jim - I think you've convinced me on the ADC option thing. And you are correct - the SDK is far too complicated. We have started to externalise the code for the more advanced components as a way of speeding up our own ...

Hi Jim, Yes - I'll have a look, but the one thing I do not want to do with this next interation of FlowCode is overcomplicate things. One of FlowCode's biggest strengths is that it allows people with practically no knowlegde of programming or of PICs to get relatively complex programs up and running...

Here's something that may help some of you, especially if you embed your own C or assembly code into FlowCode. Normally, the errors generated by the compiler are displayed so fast that it is practically impossible to see them. To get around this, I run a batch file instead of the C compiler directly...

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Here's a quick response to some of the specifics: * 16-bit math - yes * floating point - probably not * a/d - this can be achieved already using embedded C / Asm code. We'll look into the possibility of customising the a/d conversions from within FlowCode itself. *...

We've spent a lot of time recently on expanding our range of E-Blocks and have quite a few new ones coming out soon - please keep an eye on our website for more details. Here's a taster of what's on the horizon... * Bluetooth * Voice CODEC (add voice comms to the Bluetooth board) * MIDI * LIN * Moto...

Hi everybody. Just to let you know, we have now begun work on the next version of FlowCode. The main set of new features are: * improved UI * 18F compatability * 16-bit support * string support * better underlying C compiler * ability to see generated C code * entry of numbers in decimal, hex or bin...

Just to let you know, FlowCode development has begun and 18F series compatability is definitely on the way.

I'm about to put up a new post listing the other new features, so please refer to that if you want to know more...