Using properties for Struct access.

2020-04-22T16:54:10.262000Z

I guess I need to learn why you have to use REFERENCE TO ROBOT_STATUS instead of just setting the type to ROBOT_STATUS. For example the attached picture works for me.

Since I don't know why you are stuck using "REF" just a thought of something else you could do. What if you created a copy of I_robotStatus(Internal) like E_robotStatus(External) where E_robotStatus gets updated inside the FB and E_robotStatus is referenced for your property call. Then you can isolate I_robotStatus from any external calls so that if they change E_robotStatus, those changes get overwritten by the internal I_robotStatus.

Using properties for Struct access.

2020-04-22T07:28:05.828000Z

Thank you very much for your quick response!
Well, for not creating a property for each field of my Structs, I am using the property to access the complete struct.
E.g.

PROPERTY robotStatus : REFERENCE TO SL_ROBOT_CONTROL

Get property becomes:

robotStatus REF= l_robotStatus;

Where l_robotStatus is the local struct declared in the FB.

So even if I declare only the Get property, when from external I access the robotStatus property I can also change the data cause as far as I have understood is a REF property, so basically it's a pointer.
For safety and for reducing error situations for some structs I would like to declare the property REF= as only read.
Maybe there are other ways to access an entire struct of a FB from an external FB.

Thank you very much.
Best regards.

Using properties for Struct access.

2020-04-21T16:00:26.434000Z

Maybe I don't understand the question but can you just add a property to the functionblock and delete the "set" property. I'm not sure why "REF=" is needed so might not be understanding the question.

Using properties for Struct access.

2020-04-21T15:41:42.042000Z

Hi everybody,

I need to access few Struct data declared in one FB. Under these helpful forums I found the way to declare the GET method (using REF=). But I haven't found this thing: if I want to allow just the read of a struct is there a way to do it? Using the REF= declaration then from the extern I can also change the data in the struct.
Thank you very much.
Best regards.

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