User`s manual

IA261/262 WinCE User’s Manual CANopen Library
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The CANopen library is coming with a tool:
- Object Dictionary Editor GUI. This tool helps a lot in generating object dictionary source code
for each node.
Developing a new node
Creating a new CANOpen node implies to define the Object Dictionary of this node. For that,
developer has to provide a C file. This C file contains the definition of all dictionary entries, and
some kind of index table that helps the stack to access some entries directly.
1) Using Dictionary Editor GUI
The Object Dictionary Editor is a WxPython based GUI that is used to create the C files needed to
create a new CANOpen node.
2) Main view
Top list let you choose dictionary section, bottom left list is the selected index in that dictionary,
and bottom right list are edited sub-indexes.