Flow 8

[electron67]

Hello

I see that Flow 8 is ready, could you give any advance of the new components that will be included

Thanks
Enrique

[Steve]

Most of the new features are discussed here:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20075

As for specific components, all will be revealed on Wednesday...

[jgu1]

Hi Steve!

Is it also possible to import project`s from FC7 FC6 FC5 ect. Without problem, and include C code?

I have now FC7 proff. When I upgrade to FC8, do I still have the same chippack and other feature as I have bougth in FC7 and is it possible to add RPI?

Please.

Br Jorgen

[Steve]

When you upgrade, you should get 50% off most of the chip and feature packs. If you don't have the equivalent licence for a pack in v7, then I think you'll need to pay full price for that particular pack.

[jgu1]

Hi MM!

Just try to buy, upgrade FC8, or get the price for my wish, but no succes.

First, what is the toolchain, is this something I have to buy also?

Can´t find :

Once the 'Get Key' button you will be taken the checkout to purchase your Flowcode key. Where is this ?
Everytime I look in basket, the QTY is added up with one more.?
How do I get the discount code?

Sorry, but I am a bit confused

Jorgen

[QMESAR]

Jorgen.

First, what is the toolchain, is this something I have to buy also?

No the tool chain is the compiler which was previous included in the Flowcode installation now you have to down load the compiler"Toolchain" desperately and install it ,you down load the once you use for example you use AVR then you down load the AVR Tool chain and not the otter ones.
Go to Flowcode >> download and at the bottom of the page you will see it

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Once the 'Get Key' button you will be taken the checkout to purchase your Flowcode key. Where is this ?
Everytime I look in basket, the QTY is added up with one more.?

Jurgen go to buy Flowcode select Upgrade and the login to your account and then select the packs you want you will see the discount they are shown on each pack then when you buy you get the key per email and instruction how to add it to your Matrix account

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I hope this helps

[jgu1]

Hi QMSAR!

Thank you for help.

But doesn´t help. I get no email. In my opinion, I think it is a Little tricky to upgrate. And concerning "toolchain" (who could know we need that)I could imagine I have to download and run for every chippack I choose? It would be nice with a " ho to do" from MM. You know step one, step two, ect.

Keep on FC7, it work´s

Thank´s QMSAR,

Br. Jorgen

[mnf]

I found a quirk with installing the toolchain...

Installing to it's default directory (of program files (x86)) - causes compilation to fail with

Launching the compiler...
E:\Program Files (x86)\Flowcode\Common\Compilers\avr\batchfiles\avra.bat atmega328p "C:\Users\Martin\DOWNLO~1\test8.elf" "C:\Users\Martin\DOWNLO~1\test8.c" "C:\Users\Martin\DOWNLO~1\test8.lst"
'E:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

- Seems not to like the spaces in the file path.

Install to a directory such as c:\Flowcode\toolchain\.. instead to avoid this.

Martin

[DanielM]

I found a quirk with installing the toolchain...

Installing to it's default directory (of program files (x86)) - causes compilation to fail with

Launching the compiler...
E:\Program Files (x86)\Flowcode\Common\Compilers\avr\batchfiles\avra.bat atmega328p "C:\Users\Martin\DOWNLO~1\test8.elf" "C:\Users\Martin\DOWNLO~1\test8.c" "C:\Users\Martin\DOWNLO~1\test8.lst"
'E:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

- Seems not to like the spaces in the file path.

Install to a directory such as c:\Flowcode\toolchain\.. instead to avoid this.

Martin

Hi Martin,

I investigated, and it does not seem to be necessarily the presence of spaces. There appears to be a bug where certain paths that aren't on the C:\ drive aren't invoked correctly. E.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)" is ok, but "E:\Program Files (x86)" is not. "E:\ProgramFIles" is ok also, but not "E:\ProgramFiles(x86)" (even though there are no spaces). All paths on C:\ appear to work in my tests so far though, so you shouldn't encounter any problems as long as the toolchain is on that partition.

I will do some more investigating,

Thanks,

Daniel

EDIT: Any paths on D:\ partitions also appear to be fine.

[mnf]

Thanks, I'd installed Flowcode 8 (and the AVR toolchain) onto drive E:.

Reinstalling to E:\Flowcode had fixed the problem - but I didn't try the C: drive (I have Flowcode 7 installed and wanted to keep 8 seperate)

Martin

[Steve]

Hi Martin,

We're still looking into this. Can you please do me a favour - can you check to see if your E: drive is producing legacy 8.3 filenames? You will not need to reinstall Flowcode or the toolchains, so it should be a quick check.

To do this, open a command prompt and type:

Code: Select all

dir /X e:\

Within this, you should see something like this:

8.3 filenames.png

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If the "PROGRA~2" is missing then that could be the source of the problem and we should be able to provide a fix or workaround.

Thanks,
Steve.

[Steve]

We have confirmed this and it does seem to be an issue with 8.3 short names being missing.

The generation of short names is sometimes turned off by 3rd-party optimisers, even though the time saving in practice is negligible. It can be turned back on via these instructions:

http://omtool.com/documentation/HPCR/v1 ... eation.htm

This fix involves editing the registry and so I recommend you make this change only if you are comfortable editing it and understand the consequences if the wrong things get changed.

For anyone who is not comfortable with editing the registry, I suggest you use the workaround of installing the compiler toolchains into a location such as "C:\Flowcode\Toolchains" as suggested by Martin above.

[Benj]

Further to Steve's post you probably also need to follow the steps in this FAQ.
http://www.matrixtsl.com/faq/index.php? ... artlang=en

[mnf]

Thanks for the pointers - I do seem to have the short names options turned off (only on drive E:) (though no optimizer software running - it's usually disappointing!) Strangely regedit refuses to run since the last windows 10 update.... Another great step forward from MS.

Martin