Change name of C++ Component

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Hello, I have a project built in Eclipse and I want to change the name of the library, and the program. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Hi Dan, You mention three different parts of a PLCnext C++ project:

                                               * Library
                                               * Component
                                               * Program

… so we can discuss how to rename each of these: Component class or Program class To rename the Component class or Program class, simply search and replace the class name in the .cpp and .hpp files in the src directory. Note that each program class holds a reference to a component, so don’t forget this when renaming the component class. Library To change the name of the .pcwlx library that is generated by a plcncli (Eclipse) project, search and replace the name of the project’s namespace in the .cpp and .hpp files in the src directory.
Make sure you change the namespace name:
* In the “namespace” declaration at the top of the files,
* Wherever the namespace name is used as a scope qualifier in the code,
* Wherever the namespace name is used as a scope qualifier in the special comments that start with //# .
Then, when you rebuild the project, the .pcwlx file will be generated with the new library name. IMPORTANT: simply renaming the .pcwlx file on the file system should not be done, and will cause problems with PLCnext Engineer.