Overview

File parameters, or parameters with a data type of com.engineous.datatype.File, are one of the more complicated features of Isight. This section explains how to create and configure file parameters from your component editor and how to use them at run time in the Component Executor.

There is also a discussion about how to use file parameters in the Design Gateway in the Isight User’s Guide.

The first thing to realize is that a File value has two nearly independent parts: the Handler— a pointer to the actual data—and the Local Name—information about where the file will be placed at run time. There is a setting (toOption) that controls when and how the data are copied from the handler to/from the local name.