LogicLab releases

This page reports the LogicLab revision history whith the list of main features implemented.
The full list of the modifications of each version is available in the correspondig release notes.

LogicLab rel. 5.0

• New graphic interface

- New 'modern' style for the LogicLab framework

- Completely new toolbars icon set

- Support for custom application 'skins'

• Object oriented programming

- Implementation of Object Oriented features as reported in the IEC 61131-3 standard rel 3.

- Object oriented features applied to function blocks (methods, inheritance, interfaces)

- Inheritance and polymorphism features

- Interfaces (definition, inheritance, usage)

- References (type definition and usage)

• Custom image for POUs

- Each user defined POU can have a custom image (support for bmp, png, gif, jpg, tif formats)

- The block image will be shown in the LD and FBD languages and in the block description (property view)

• New POU property view

- Each block can now have an hypertext (HTML) description

- Support for images and full HTML text formatting features

- New 'Edit block property' window for the editing of the block documentation/description

• SFC editing improvements

- SFC editor has now both editing modes: manual and automatic

- Added functions for automatic movement and placement of SFC blocks

• SFC transitions with expressions

- ST expressions can be used as transition code

- The ST expression can be entered in the 'Transition properties' dialog in addition the the existing choiches: variable, constant and code

- This feature simplifies the SFC source code editing

• Expression in FBD language

- FBD blocks can have ST expression as input

- The same function is already available with LD editor (since rel. 4.2)