Patent ID: 9158508
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for creating, within a control program development editor facility, a connection between an I/O attribute of a control object of a first control strategy and a declaration, the control object having a graphical representation on a first control strategy canvas corresponding to the first control strategy, the method comprising the steps of: displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) of the editor facility, the GUI comprising the first control strategy canvas and a declarations area, the first control strategy canvas and the declarations area being displayed on the GUI simultaneously adjacent each other; identifying one or more declarations available to the first control strategy in the declarations area; selecting at least one of the declarations from the declarations area of the GUI of the editor facility; creating a graphical declaration representation of the declaration in response to a user action of selecting the declaration from the declarations area and indicating a location for the graphical declaration representation of the selected declaration on the first control strategy canvas; creating a connection between the selected declaration as represented by the graphical declaration representation and an I/O attribute of the control object on the first control strategy canvas using graphical user interface pointer actions, wherein the connection between the selected declaration and the I/O attribute is graphically represented on the first control strategy canvas by a line connecting a graphical representation of the I/O attribute and the graphical declaration representation; and automatically detecting the type of the connection and applying appearance characteristics to the line according to user defined connection appearance characteristics based on the type of connection.