Editing

You can edit the layout of a component without first opening the respective component editor. The public interface of a component is declared in the layout editor.

Every database/workspace item can have two types of text attached to it: comment text and notes. The comment text is entered in the "Comment" field in the Component Manager and is stored automatically. The notes for a database/workspace item are entered in a separate editor window. When documentation is generated automatically, notes are included, but comments are not.

Depending on the activation status of the Non-Volatile attribute, variables and parameters are treated differently by the code generation. Only volatile elements are initialized automatically. Non-volatile data are not overwritten upon initialization. You can set the Non-Volatile attribute for individual elements (see Editing Element Properties), and you can assign one setting to all variables or all parameters (see Assigning the Volatile Attribute to All Variables and Assigning the Non-Volatile Attribute to All Parameters).