TCPmaker : Visual Tour    Compiling TCPmakers Generated Code in MPLAB  

This will display the index page of your TCPmaker layout, with all the background colors and controls that are present on that page.

The gauges don't display any values, because you need to add some code to send the data to the PC.

If you click one of the pushbuttons, you will see its appearance change on the browser when it is in the "down" or "active" state, but since we haven't added any code of our own to what TCPmaker generated, the PIC device simply ignores any data sent to it.

There is one thing on our page that is changing, though: the green circular indicator light labeled "RB1" (see red arrow) is flashing about once a second, to let us know that our TCPmaker device has established a live connection that is actually able to send data.

In our next tutorial, we'll explain the special "blink" code that does that, as we also take a tour through the generated code, and learn how to add our own code to customize it and to add "real I/O" to our device.

 

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