Echelon OpenLNS - Manual (Page 401)

OpenLNS Programmer's Reference 364
Element Description
fsObject The FormatSpec object to be acted on.
formNameValue The FormatName as a string.
Data Type String.
Read/Write Read/write.
Added to API LNS Release 3.0.
FormatType
Summary Determines the base type of the data read from and written
to FormattedValue property in the DataPoint or
NvMonitorPoint object using the FormatSpec object .
Availability Local, full, lightweight, and independent clients. Note that
some objects containing this property are not available to
Independent clients.
Syntax formatType = fsObject. FormatType
Element Description
formatType The type for the data.
Typically, OpenLNS will automatically
assign each data point a type based on
the type of the network variable or
configuration property associated with
the data point. You can use this
property to override that setting. Also,
you can set options to use when
displaying the formatted value of data
point objects by writing to the
CurrentFormatLocale being used by
your application.
The enumerated values for this
element, which are contained in the
ConstLNSFormatType constant, are as
follows:
0 lcaFormatTypeNamed
The FormatSpec object contains a
format for a user defined network
variable or configuration property type.
If the type is a user-defined network
variable or configuration property type
(UNVT or UCPT), set this property to
lcaFormatTypeNamed(0), set the
FormatName property to the name of
the user type, and set the Scope and
ProgramId properties to the scope and
Program ID of the format file
containing the definition of the type.