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Alias A data type alias is the declaration of a user-defined data type with which an alternative name for a basic type, data type, or function block is generated. You make the type declaration of an a
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Attribute: instance-path The pragma can be applied to a local string variable. It has the effect that this local string variable in sequence with the device tree path of the POU which it belongs to is
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Attribute: monitoring The effect of this pragma is that you can monitor values of properties or function calls in the online view of the IEC editor or in a watch list. There are two possible attribute
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Attribute: no-exit The attribute suppresses the call of the FB_Exit method of a function block for a certain one of its instances. To do this you insert the attribute in the line before the declaratio
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Attribute: obsolete The effect of this pragma is that a defined warning is displayed for a data type definition during compilation if the data type (structure, function block, etc.) is used in the pro
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Object: Program A program is a POU that yields one or more values when executed. All values remain unchanged after program execution until the next execution. The call order of programs in an applicat
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Mapping a Hardware Structure in the Device Tree You map the hardware that you control with your application in the Devices view (device tree). To do this, insert device objects into this tree structur
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Programming of Applications To create an application program which can be run on the controller, you fill POUs with declarations and implementation code (source code), establish the link from the cont
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Designating Identifiers Identifiers are names of variables and programming objects (for example programs, function blocks, and methods) and names of other objects of the application and project. There
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UTF-8 Encoding Basics Applications in CODESYS can process a wide variety of characters, for example, to output an error message in various languages. Or to display visualizations in a language selecte