User Types editor

It allows you to specify user-defined types used in generated code.

The list of user types that you can create:

Aliases
Arrays
Records
Pointers
Enums
User definitions
Figure 1. User types

To open user type editor, right-click Types Definition and select Add Type as shown in the above figure. The following figure shows Types editor.

Figure 2. Types

This table explains the fields of User Type editor.

Table 1. User Type editor
Field	Description
This defines	Lists user-defined types
Type Name	Type name as it will be stored in the types list (for Parameter Type feature in Methods page and Events page, and for parameters type and return types of functions)
Is type	Data Type
Hint	Description of the selected type. It is used in help files
Generate to driver	If the declaration is generated in the drivers
Generate to doc	It will generate the User Type information into the HTML documentation
Unique name	If set to yes, the type will have the unique name, which consists of the name of the component and the Type Name. Two instances of one type of the component will have two different declarations of this type. For example, the component name is MyComponent. This component has one user type MyType and has selected the Unique name option. There are two instances in Processor Expert MB1 and MB2. After code generation, there will be two declared user types: MB1_MyType MB2_MyType

The following describes the settings of User Type:

Properties of type Alias:
- Type Name - Name of the variable
- Is type - Alias type is the same type as selected type
Properties of type Array:
- Type Name - Name of the variable
- Low index - Low index of the array. The size of array is (high-low+1)
- High index - High index of the array. The size of array is (high-low+1)
- Is type - Type of array
Properties of type Record:
- Type Name - Name of the variable in the record
- Hint - Description of the variable. It is used in help files
Properties of type Pointer:
- Type Name - Name of the variable
- Is pointer to this type - This user type is a pointer to the selected type
Properties of type Enum:
- Type Name - Name of the variable
- Hint - Description of the variable
Properties of User:
- Type Name - Name of the variable
- User Definition - There is a user definition. User has full control of the user type. User type can be defined either simple or complicated types, for example:
  typedef int *TIntPtr;
  
  typedef struct { float real; float imaginary; } TComplex;
- Hint - Description of the variable