MC-Basic:COMMON SHARED or DIM SHARED or DIM ... AS GENERIC GROUP
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A generic group is a type of variable, designed to serve as a reference (container) - either temporal or permanent - to another group (real or generic). Generic groups can be defined in all scopes, i.e., either in configuration file and from terminal (global groups), or within tasks, before (static groups) and within the Program …End Program block (local groups). Generic groups can also be defined as “by-reference” parameters of subroutines and functions, as well as returned-values of functions. A generic group may be a scalar or an array. An array may have up to 10 dimensions. Generic grop has no meaning until assigned with “real” group (see below example).
Syntax
Common Shared <group>As Generic Group {[ ]…}
Availability
All versions
Scope
Configuration, Task or Terminal.
Since Version 4.5.17 the global (common shared ) declaration is also possible from the Library context.
Limitations
Write only.
Examples
Common Shared XYTable as group AxisName=X_axis AxisName=Y_axis
Common Shared Scara as group axnm = a1 axnm = a2 axnm = a3 axnm = a4
Common Shared GenGroup1 As Generic Group
Common Shared GenGroupArray [5][5] Generic Group
GenGroup1 = Scara
GenGroupArray [5][5] = XYTable