Your editors and wizards in MULTIPROG

When programming the PLC application in MULTIPROG^®, you essentially work with three editors. However, wizards and numerous other small assistants are additionally available to you, so that you can concentrate on the most important work: the optimal PLC application!

The graphic editor

In the graphic editor you can work with the IEC 61131 programming languages SFC, FBD, LD or with different combinations of the languages. The fully graphical editor allows completely free placements of objects and when it comes to the handling of elements, it takes their context in the network into account at all times.

Select the methods that are best suited for your application and use the editor functions with which you develop your program code in FBD, LD or SFC the fastest:

Mixing of the graphical languages LD, FBD and SFC in one worksheet
Aligning objects with an adjustable grid
Inserting any number of new elements in already existing networks
Moving individual objects or entire object groups
Autorouting when connecting objects
Implementing own graphics into the icons of the functions and function blocks
Opening the codes of user-defined functions and FBs via doubleclicking
Different colours for functions and FBs of different origin (user FB, library FB, firmware FB)
Inserting functions and function blocks using the Edit Wizard
Easy operation of the editor also via the keyboard
Duplicating inputs
Negation of inputs, outputs, contacts and coils
Splitting of the code windows and overview windows

[In addition: The Fixed Format LD editor]

The text editor

With the text editor, you edit and debug the code in the IEC 61131 programming languages IL and ST and define user-defined data types.

Thanks to syntax highlighting you always keep an overview even in case of more complex code constructions: It issues the different language elements with different colours and this way you can distinguish between keywords, variables or comments at a glance.

With the IntelliSense function you no longer need to enter already declared variables and structure element names - comparable to an automatic completion.

The variables grid editor

The system provides two possibilities to declare variables and function block instances: During code development via dialog or with the help of the variables grid editor.

In the variables grid, each line represents the declaration of a variable or FB instance.
For an optimal overview, variables can be divided into different groups. The attributes of each variable/instance are defined in the respective table columns either by entering or selecting a combo box entry.

The variables editor prevents a number of syntactical declaration errors and makes declaration easy and clear.

The Edit Wizard

The Edit Wizard helps you when inserting and replacing code elements in worksheets: Depending on the programming language used, you can insert keywords and statements, operators, functions and function blocks with the help of the Edit Wizard. In addition, the Wizard simplifies the declaration of own data types.

Especially in the text editor the use of the Edit Wizard holds significant advantages: syntax errors are avoided and you do not need to know the syntax of the different instructions, like for example function blocks or loops, in detail.

Project Wizard

The easiest way of creating new MULTIPROG^® projects is using the Project Wizard which guides you through the creation process in six steps.

You can easily define name and type of the project, the initial POU, the used configuration (PLC), the first resource (processor in the PLC) and the first task.

[Also read: Project creation with templates]

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