If your license is to be read from a locally attached dongle, click the "Dongle" button in the Register Dialog then click "Continue". The following dialog will appear:
The "Read Dongle" button
This button will read the contents of the dongle without installing it as the selected license method. FlexPDE will search the USB and Parallel ports for an appropriate license dongle. If a dongle is found, the ID number and the license contents are displayed. You must select the "Register" button to activate the dongle as the license method.
If no dongle is found, or if the dongle driver has not been installed, the search will fail, and FlexPDE will report an error.
License Content
This line displays the characteristics encoded in the license identified by the previous selections. In the case displayed above, the license encodes a FlexPDE Professional license for 1D, 2D or 3D problems.
The "Register" button
Click "Register" to install the dongle as the active license method. Subsequently, every time you start FlexPDE it will search the USB and Parallel ports for the dongle.
The "Cancel" button
Click "Cancel" to abort without changing the active license method.
Upgrading a Dongle
You can use the Register dialog to field-upgrade a dongle (including Network dongles). If you have previously been issued a FlexPDE version 4, version 5 or version 6 dongle, and subsequently purchase an upgrade, you will be sent a software key which encodes the upgrade. Dongles issued with FlexPDE version 2 or version 3 cannot be upgraded to version 6. You will be sent a new version 6 dongle when upgrading from these versions.
Type or paste your upgrade key in the field provided, and click "Upgrade". Your dongle will be updated with the information encoded in the key. Note that the dongle upgrade facility will rewrite the dongle only if the serial number of the dongle matches the serial number encoded in the upgrade key. Click "Register" finish the upgrade.
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