Type: BCS.Sym3.ITemplate

Represents a template object.

Properties

BaseProject

  • Description: Gets the project
  • Type: IBaseProject
  • Access: Read

BoundProperties

  • Description: Gets the list of bound properties
  • Type: ObservableCollection`1
  • Access: Read

DisplayTypeName

  • Description: Gets the display name of the type name of the object. It returns the english display name of the type name.
  • Type: String
  • Access: Read

Id

  • Description: Gets the globally unique identifier (GUID) id of the object. This unique identifier is generated once at the object creation. This id will be kept unique for the entire life of the object, event after saving/loading the project.
  • Type: Guid
  • Access: Read and Write
  • Example:
This example shows how to get the id of an object in a string format. The following script will output a string like 'b3122ae0-dcf7-43b6-b17c-5381afaca5cb'


            strid = Project.Colors.Get("myColor").Id.ToString();
            print(strid)

Name

  • Description: Gets or sets the name of the object. All objects of the same type have a unique name.
  • Type: String
  • Access: Read and Write
  • Example:
This example shows how to get and set the name of an object.


            // get the color name
            colorname = Project.Colors.Get("myColor").Name;
            
            // set the color name
            Project.Colors.Get("myColor").Name = "myNewName";

NameSuffix

  • Description: The project explorer will display this after the Name of this object.
  • Type: String
  • Access: Read

Setters

  • Description: Gets the collection of setters
  • Type: ObservableCollection`1
  • Access: Read and Write
  • Example:
This example shows you how to get the list of setters


            var template = Project.Templates.New("Button")
            
            // loop setters
            for(i=0; template.Setters.Count; i++) {
            
              var setter = template.Setters[i];
            
              setter.PropertyName = "BorderColor";
              setter.Value = Project.Colors["Sym3 Red"]; 
            }

TargetType

  • Description: Gets the target object .Net Type
  • Type: Type
  • Access: Read

TargetTypeName

  • Description: Gets the target type name
  • Type: String
  • Access: Read

TypeName

  • Description: Gets the typename of the object. A type name doesn’t contain any space characters.
  • Type: String
  • Access: Read

UserPropertyInstances

  • Description: Gets a list of all the instances of user properties.
  • Type: ObservableCollection`1
  • Access: Read

Methods

ForceRename(System.String,System.Boolean)

Rename the object.

  • Parameters:
    • value: The new name.
    • fireChangingEvent: If false, no change event will fire. In particular, this disables the check for duplicate names, which can be costly as it has to check every equipment. The caller is responsible for ensuring that value is a unique name, or Bad Things will happen.

FromXmlString(BCS.IToolXmlToObjectHelper)

Init object from IToolXmlToObjectHelper. All properties found in the RootElement of IToolXmlToObjectHelper will be set with the value in the rootElement

  • Parameters:
    • xmlHelperObj: xmlHelperObj IToolXmlToObjectHelper

FromXmlString(System.String)

Init object from xml. All properties found in the xml will be set with the value in the xml file

  • Parameters:
    • xmlText: Xml string

FromXmlString(System.Xml.Linq.XElement)

Init object from root element. All properties found in the XElement will be set with the value in the XElement

  • Parameters:
    • objXml: objXml XElement

GetBoundProperty(System.String)

Gets a bound property by property name

  • Parameters:
    • propertyName: Property name
  • Returns:
    • Returns bound property. Null if not found
  • Example:
This example shows you how to get a binding on a property if this one exists


            // get control:
            var td = Project.Windows["Window1"]["Text Display1"]
            
            // bind property 'Value'
            var boundProperty = td.GetBoundProperty("Value")

GetCopyPasteXml

Converts the object into an XML string including overrides for for copy/paste functionality

  • Returns:
    • the string that contains xml version of the object for copy/paste

GetSetter(System.String)

Gets a setter by its property name

  • Parameters:
    • propertyName: property name
  • Returns:
    • Returns the template setter if found, Null otherwise.

GetUserPropertyInstance(System.String)

Gets the user property instance of the specified name

  • Parameters:
    • userPropertyName: The user property name.
  • Returns:
    • Returns the user property instance object. If not found, the methods returns null.
  • Example:
This example shows how to set the value of a user property by using this method


            cc1 = Project.Equipment.Get("CC1");
            
            // get the value of a user property using the method
            userPropertyInstance = cc1.GetUserPropertyInstance("UserProperty1");
            if(userPropertyInstance != null) {
               userPropertyInstance.Value = 3;
            }

GetUserPropertyValue(System.String)

Gets the value of a user property. A better way to get the value of a user property is to use the indexer operator [], see example. Instead of using the method ‘GetUserPropertyInstance’ and then access the ‘Value’ property of the returned value, this method simplifies the way we get the value of a user property.

  • Parameters:
    • userPropertyName: The name of the user property to set.
  • Returns:
    • Returns null if user property is not found. Otherwise returns the value of the user property.
  • Example:
This example shows how to get the value of a user property using this method and also by using the indexer


            cc1 = Project.Equipment.Get("CC1");
            
            // get the value of a user property using the method
            val = cc1.GetUserPropertyValue("UserProperty1");
            
            // get the value of a user property using the indexer operator
            val = cc1["UserProperty1"];

IsUserProperty(System.String)

Indicates if the object contains a user property with the name you specify

  • Parameters:
    • userPropertyName: user property name
  • Returns:
    • Returns true if the object contains a user property with the name you specified in parameter.

NewBoundProperty(System.String)

Creates a new bound property

  • Parameters:
    • propertyName: Name of property to bind
  • Returns:
    • If the property (propertyName) doesn’t exist for this object type, no bound property will be created so this method will return null.
  • Example:
This example shows you how to bind a property


            // get control:
            var td = Project.Windows["Window1"]["Text Display1"]
            
            // bind property 'Value'
            var boundProperty = td.NewBoundProperty("Value")
            
            // set expression:
            boundProperty.Expression = "%caller.Name%_Running";
            
            // create a mapping:
            boundProperty.AddMapping("1", "It is true");
            boundProperty.AddMapping("0", "It is false");

NewSetter(System.String,System.Object)

Creates a new setter

  • Parameters:
    • propertyName: Property name
    • value: Value for this property
  • Returns:
    • The newly created setter object
  • Example:
This example shows you how to create a new setter


            var template = Project.Templates.New("Button")
            
            // new setter
            template.NewSetter("BorderColor", Project.Colors["Sym3Red"]);

RemoveBoundProperty(System.String)

Removes a binding

  • Parameters:
    • propertyName:
  • Example:
This example shows you how to remove a binding on a property


            // get control:
            var td = Project.Windows["Window1"]["Text Display1"]
            
            // remove data binding on property 'Value'
            td.RemoveBoundProperty("Value")

SetUserPropertyValue(System.String,System.Object)

Sets the value of a user property. A better way to set the value of a user property is to use the indexer operator [], see example. Instead of using the method ‘GetUserPropertyInstance’ and then access the ‘Value’ property of the returned value, this method simplifies the way we set the value of a user property.

  • Parameters:
    • userPropertyName: The name of the user property to set.
    • value: If the user property is not found, this methods does nothing.
  • Example:
This example shows how to set the value of a user property using this method and also by using the indexer


            cc1 = Project.Equipment.Get("CC1");
            
            // set the value of a user property using the method
            cc1.SetUserPropertyValue("UserProperty1", 3);
            
            // set the value of a user property using the indexer operator
            cc1["UserProperty1"] = 3;

ToCSVString(System.Char)

Returns the object in a CSV string.

  • Returns:
    • A string that contains properties of the object in a CSV format.

ToXmlString

Converts the object in an xml string

  • Returns:
    • the string that contains xml version of the object