RonJohn:
That overlay seems kind of clunky to me. I get what he's trying to do (I think), but the system doesn't seem to like XML comments, I guess.
Ron:
Yeah, what you're describing sounds like a take-off on what Ken suggested ... except your're doing it with a DINT and he was doing it with an array.
I was just trying to give the individual bits of a DINT individual names, and after creating the DINT didn't see any way to do it. So I first thought of "aliasing", which is possible (apparently), but I think the UDT is better because it keeps everything together in one package (as opposed to creating alias tags pointing back to a DINT that could end up scattered anywhere in your tag list).
Is there any downside to going with the UDT over the aliasing, or is it just a "preference" thing?
Another question:
The Tag List is purely alphabetical, right? This isn't like building a data segment in "C" where you can put things wherever you want, right? So if you want your "like" tags to be clustered neatly together in your tag list, you have to name them hierarchically, correct?