Table 7- 412 Staginfo - .Net (C#) - Siemens Simatic S7-1500 Function Manual

User interfaces (API)
7.8 Data types

Table 7- 412 STagInfo - .NET (C#)

Syntax
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public struct STagInfo
{
String Name;
EArea Area;
EDataType DataType;
EPrimitiveDataType PrimitiveDataType;
UInt16 Size;
UInt32 Offset;
UInt8 Bit;
UInt32 Index;
UInt32 ParentIndex;
SDimension[] Dimension;
}
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String name:
The name of the tag
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EArea area:
The CPU area where the tag is located.
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EDataType DataType:
The CPU data type of the tag
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EPrimitiveDataType PrimitiveDataType:
The primitive data type of the tag
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UInt16 size:
The size of the tag in bytes.
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UInt32 offset:
The byte offset of the tag if it is not located in a data block.
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UInt8 bit:
The bit offset of the tag if it is not located in a data block.
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UInt32 index:
The index of the tag
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UInt32 ParentIndex:
If this tag is embedded in another tag (for example, an element of a structure),
this value then displays the index of the parent tag. The value is 0 if the tag has
no parent tag.
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SDimension[] Dimension:
Information about each dimension of the field. Empty, if the tag is not an array.
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