A collection of useful user defined snippets for AX Code.

To install the snippets collection to your workspace enter the following command in a terminal:

apax add @simatic-ax/snippetscollection --dev

to install this package you need to login into the GitHub registry. You'll find more information here

"prefix": ["AxUnit test-fixture"]

Output example:

"prefix": ["AxUnit, using ax"]

Output:

USING AxUnit.Assert;

"prefix": ["eq, ne, lt, gt"]

Output:

Equal(expected := 0, actual := 0);
NotEqual(expected := 0, actual := 0);
LessThan(expected := 0, actual := 0);
GreaterThan(expected := 0, actual := 0);

"prefix" : ["namespace, Siemens"]

Output:

NAMESPACE Simatic.Ax
    
END_NAMESPACE

"prefix" : ["class template, End_Class"]

Output:

NAMESPACE Simatic.Ax
    CLASS Untitled
        VAR PUBLIC
            
        END_VAR
        VAR PROTECTED
            
        END_VAR
        
        METHOD PUBLIC MyMethod
            ;
        END_METHOD
    END_CLASS
END_NAMESPACE

"prefix" : ["method, no return"]

Output:

METHOD PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED MyMethod
    ;
END_METHOD

METHOD PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED MyMethod : Type
     MyMethod := ;
END_METHOD

// types: BOOL,INT,LREAL,WORD,REAL,DINT,UINT,SINT

"prefix" : ["varc"]

Output:

VAR PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED 
    ;
END_VAR

"prefix" : ["vari"]

Output:

VAR_INPUT|VAR_OUTPUT|VAR_IN_OUT|VAR_TEMP|VAR CONSTANT
    count: INT;
END_VAR

"prefix" : ["enum"]

Output:

TYPE
    Colours : (RED, GREEN, BLUE) := RED;
END_TYPE

"prefix" : ["io"]

Support for creating IO Tags in the VAR_GLOBAL section. Suported types BOOL, BYTE, WORD, DWORD

Output example:

"prefix" : ["Iterate Array*"]

Output example:

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