Hello Dieter,
Thanks for your comments. We greatly appreciate your input.
keep in mind that we need flowcode to generate code quick for rapid prototypes
We do try and keep this in mind and this is why we have tried to design a better more intuitive interface which allows not only us to churn out new components but also for our users to make their own components such as injectors to replicate a myriad of different sensors etc that can be used in the simulation to improve the likelihood of the hardware working first time. The old v5 style was nice and worked well but was very massively limited and took a huge amount of work just to fix a simple bug. With v6 we can hopefully jump on bugs very quickly and bring much more functionality to the front to speed up your prototypes massively. I'm a firmware and embedded engineer by trade so I do appreciate what your saying but I do also feel that a project using the new features of v6 is a lot faster then developing using v5 once your familiar with the v6 interface changes.
not all properties in the propertiespanel but in pop up like in v5.
In v5 all the properties and connections are hidden away in a window, if I got a support query then I would have to go through each dialogue for each component to try and see whats going on and maybe spot the issue. Again in v5 these windows were a nightmare to create and change not to mention DPI issues. In v6 the properties are very easy to edit and versatile. Can you explain exactly what it is you don't like about the new properties pane so that we may understand better and maybe provide improvements. We did include a XML option where we could layout properties in a similar style to v5 but so far we have not really explored this, mainly because users creating their own components probably won't want to do this and then there is a style mismatch between user and packaged components. Also consider tooltips, hover the mouse over a property and you should get a helpful tooltip, not possible using the v5 style window.
in v5 i click on a compinent and there is a field were i can set the settings for the component
no 10 switches or very bad led arrays to choose
We have cleaned up and rationalised components since 6.0 and the next major update 6.1 will hopefully act to really clean up the component library. We are also thinking about hiding surplus components and providing a search feature so as not to clutter the categories. The patches do have the new components but cannot remove the surplus components so there will likely be a lot of clutter that will disappear come the 6.1 major update in the new year.
the leds are black dots and dont look like leds!!! awful
Are you using v6.0.3? If not then it's worth upgrading as this should now be fixed. We can also add more built in styles if this would help and default the style to something which looks a bit more like LEDs.
in a ledarray the component connection visible becaus how do we need to know wich led is connected to wich pin????
We are working on a fix to bring back the connection labels as billboards so they always face the camera.
when simulation starts no pop up for the simulation speed and when it stops no pop up for the ending of the simulation
We can probably do this via a setting in the global options. One for Jonny.
a button to switch back to v5 components, no 3d because it slows down everything
We can't go back to the v5 components they were so limiting and horrible to work with, hopefully with the cleaned up components in the upcoming 6.1 release this will be better for you. I am also doing a lot of work at the minute to make sure the help wiki is up to scratch. I'm getting there but its a big job.
3D is often accelerated with hardware on nearly all modern PCs. There shouldn't be any significant slow down between the 2D panel and the 3D panel. If you are getting slow down then what is the spec of your PC maybe we can improve this for you (Flowcode's 3D capabilities not the spec of your PC
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Also going forward 3D is only going to get more popular, best to get to grips with it now. 3D printers are awesome and the fact that I can simulate a 3D print and make the embedded hardware to create an actual 3D printer using the same Flowcode program is revolutionary and ground breaking.
The accelerometer demo at the link below also shows the positive aspects of the 3D panel.
http://matrixmultimedia.com/blog/?p=82
I can also bring the model for my quadrocopter into flowcode and model the environment to add gravity etc so I can hopefully test fly it in the simulation before risking my hardware with potentially faulty firmware.
3D was the right way to go, no doubt at all in my mind, however disabling it if not needed is no problem.
no system panel only dashboardpanel
I think this is on the list as a setting in the global options window.
Out of interest would it help at all if the panels didn't automatically scale when being re-sized?
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