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How to Create Your Own Components


How to Create Your Own Components describes the overall procedure for creating a new component. Tutorials demonstrate how to use the Component Creation Wizard to create a component and how to edit the generated M-code to make the component executable. The following sections are included:

Creating Components
Provides overview of the steps to take in creating new components.
Starting the Component Creation Wizard
Shows how to start the Component Creation Wizard and provides an overview of the tutorials used in this chapter.
Entering Component Category Information
Shows how to specify the component's category, category ID, and category name.
Creating the Component Name
Shows how to specify the component's name, function name, parent directory, and description.
Creating Component Attributes
Shows how to specify the component attribute's field name, data type, default value, control type, and name.
Creating Component Methods
Shows how to create a custom attributes method and a custom outlinestring method.
Reviewing All Component Information
Shows how to verify component information and how to create component.
Tutorial: Editing and Running the New Component
Shows how to edit the M Files that were created with the component to make the component executable.
Summary
Provides summary of tutorials used in this chapter.


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