On our way to 1.8!

Today we released our first milestone on our way to 4DIAC 1.8! With this milestone release we want to give you a first impression of the cool new features that will come with 4DIAC 1.8. The main improvements in 1.8 M1 are:

• Extended FORTE Platform Support:

  • RaspberryPi SPS
  • RaspberryPi and BeagleBone black I/O interface based on sysfs. Therefore no additional libraries are needed anymore.
  • First support for Lego Mindstorms EV3 (touch sensor, LEDs)

• UI and Usability Improvements in 4DIAC-IDE:

  • New icons and improved look and feel of the application and system editors by adding a function block palette to the application editor and adding a FB library to the system in the project explorer.
  • Cleaning up FB type editing for basic function blocks by moving algorithm and internal variable editing to the ECC editor greatly reducing the number of clicks and tab switches.
  • Generate communication function blocks between function blocks mapped to different resources
  • Better integration of ST parsing for the algorithm editor allowing for better code completion and also better code generation
  • Use Ed 2.0 Transition condition style (transition parser available)
  • Cleanup of download perspective
  • Adapter connections have own color
  • Removed not needed menu and toolbar entries provided by different eclipse base plugins

As always please download, test, and report problems and bugs.

Cheers,
The 4DIAC Team

P.S.: There are still some cool features, like monitoring of adapters, breakpoints, or syntax highlighting and code completion for transition conditions in the queue for 1.8!