Changing the Window Layout In CODESYS , you can easily customize the layout of different views to your individual needs. Drag the view by the title bar or by the tab. Arrows are shown to mark possible

Resizing Windows Move the mouse pointer over the border between two windows or views. The cursor becomes a left-right arrow. Drag the border to another position. Tip You can resize detached views by m

Auto-Hiding Windows Hiding windows When you hide a view, it is minimized to a tab in the frame of the user interface. When you hover the pointer over the tab, the window is shown automatically. Click

Toggling Between Windows You can directly switch between the open views and the editor windows. Press the Ctrl and Tab keys at the same time. Hold down the Ctrl key. An overview opens showing all acti

Your First CODESYS Program :

Programming the Controller Application in the Project Declaring the global variables First, declare the variables that you want to use across the entire application. To do this, create a global variab

Creating and Configuring a Project What is a project? . What is a project? A project contains the objects which are necessary to create a controller program ("application"): Pure POUs Examples: progra

Data Type: __UXINT, __XINT, __XWORD Variables with these special data types are converted to a platform-compliant data type, depending on the target system. CODESYS supports systems with address regis

User-defined data type: TYPE :

Data Structure: STRUCT A structure is a user-defined data type, which combines multiple variables of any data type into a logical unit. The variables declared within a structure are called members. Yo