Localizing Projects You can display your project in different languages when you create and link localization files. The localization files correspond to those of the GNU gettext system. The format of

Creating a Project Template You can create your own project templates, which can be selected in the Templates area of the New Project dialog when creating a new project ( *.project or *.library ). You

Configuring I/O Links With the help of device objects you can map hardware to be controlled in a tree structure in your CODESYS project. This makes the linking of hardware and application easy to hand

Device Tree and Device Editor Device tree In the Devices view (also called the "device tree"), you organize applications according to target device. In this view, you can see the PLC hardware and fiel

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

Configuring Devices and I/O Mapping Configuring devices You can configure the device objects inserted into the device tree in the associated device editor. The possibilities depend on the device descr

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

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

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

Declaration of Variables Variable declaration: Where and how? You can declare variables at the following locations: Declaration part of a POU The Declare Variable dialog helps you with this. Tip If yo