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Controller Class Summary

The following pages provide detailed information on the properties and methods of the global Controller Class. This class provides access to the general facilities provided by the Guidance Controller, e.g. high power control, E-Stop logic, configuration database values, etc. As such, this class and all of its members are uniquely defined for PreciseFlex™ controller products and do not conform to any other standards. In the case of certain methods, such as the SleepTick, very similar functionality is provided by other means within the Basic language. However, the members of this class were selected based upon ease-of-use considerations or because they provide some slightly different, but important, functionality.

As is standard in GPL, conversions between different arithmetic types, e.g. Integer, Single, Double, are automatically performed as required. So, for numeric properties and methods of the Controller Class, it is not necessary to have different variations of these members to deal with the different possible mixes of input parameter data types. Also, as appropriate, the properties and methods generally produce results that are formatted as Doubles. These results will automatically be converted to smaller data types as necessary, e.g. Double -> Integer, and will not generate an error so long as numeric overflow does not occur.

The table below summarizes the properties and methods that are described in greater detail in the following sections.