Common editor elements and editor actions

A →graphical editor contains the following common elements and provides the following actions:

• Common elements

  • List of the declared variables

• Common actions

  • Changing the name of an element

  • Declaring variables

  • Declaring external variables by dragging and dropping global variables into POUs

  • Declaring a Boolean local variable fast

  • Modifying variables

    • Changing name, data type and initial value of a declared variable

    • Changing the name of a declared variable

    • Changing the data type of a declared variable

    • Entering or changing the initial value for a declared variable

    • Entering or changing the description for a declared variable

    • Entering or changing the comment for a declared variable

  • Deleting already declared variables

• Common features