API FCD.GetItemValue

<sidebar>API Contents</sidebar> Gets a paths item value from the FCD document

Parameters

STRING PathName

The '.' separated path through the FCD to look in

STRING ItemName

The name of the item to read

STRING DefText

A default value to return if the item is not found

The default value for this parameter is: ""

Return value

STRING

Returns the paths item value from the FCD document

Detailed description

FCD files are XML files. The PathName must be a list of items, not including the XML root tag of the tags where the XML attribute ItemName is to be located. So to extract the FLASH memory size Pathname="device.memory" and ItemName="bytes".

If the ItemName is not found in the specified location then DefText will be returned instead.

Examples

Calling in a calculation

• Declare a variable 'result' of type STRING
• Add to a calculation icon:

  result = ::FCD.GetItemValue("pathname", "itemname", "deftext")

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