Hi all, as I found out the differences of the different S7 types, i am currently implementing the parsing and serialization of these types. Now there are 3 types of 1-byte values:
* BYTE * SINT * CHAR At a first glance it seems strange that Siemens defined these, but it turned out that: * BYTE = Bit string of 8 Boolean values * SINT = 1 byte integer number * CHAR = 1 character String So now I’m thinking of how BYTE, WORD, DWORD and LWORD should be handled. For the Integer and FloatingPointFieldItems I implemented getBoolean to return true, if the value is not 0. However for the byte-strings it would make more sense to instead return more Boolean items, so reading 2 bytes for example would return 16 boolean values. What are your thoughts on this matter? Chris
