Method and program editor for creating and editing a program for an industrial automation assembly

摘要

The method involves moving the selected new program object to a target position in the text of program. The target position is examined to determine whether an existing program object of one of the same object type and a compatible object type is present at the target position. The existing program object is replaced with the selected object, when presence of existing program object is determined. The character string representing the selected object is inserted into the text of the program at the target position, when absence of existing program object is determined. An independent claim is included for a program editor for creating and processing a program presented as text for an industrial automation arrangement.