topic Connection for panel stops working in Lookout

Connection for panel stops working

BuddyC — Tue, 11 May 2004 19:00:35 GMT

I activate a panel from several pushbuttons by setting Panel.activate=Pb1 or Pb2 or Pb3 or ...
This seems to work until I close the process and then open it again - the panel will not activate. When I rebuild the above statement from scratch, it works again? What am I doing wrong? Is this a Lookout (5.1) bug?

Re: Connection for panel stops working

Carl_Finley — Tue, 11 May 2004 19:37:05 GMT

Sometimes Lookout "forgets" things it's supposed to do when done through expressions. The proper way to do this would be to (in object explorer), right click your panel and go to edit connections. Select the activate data member (I prefer to use the maximize data member instead), and make your connection "pb1 or pb2 or pb3" then click accept and you are in business.

Re: Connection for panel stops working

BuddyC — Wed, 12 May 2004 10:55:28 GMT

I appreciate your input, but I have done it at least a dozen times exactly the way you describe. Then when I close the process and reopen it, the pushbuttons do not activate the panel. The activate connection "looks" exacly the way I had entered it after reopening the process. Then I rebuild the activate connection and the pushbuttons work.

Re: Connection for panel stops working

Carl_Finley — Wed, 12 May 2004 13:46:26 GMT

Sorry I misunderstood. You should try using the maximize data member rather than the activate. If you have the same results with this data member then you have a problem. I have never had any troubles with connections not working properly in 5.1

Re: Connection for panel stops working

Khalid — Wed, 12 May 2004 14:49:01 GMT

Just as a sanity check, I tried this on 5.1 and it seems to work fine. Can you create a small, sample process file where you can reproduce this consistently and attach it for us to try?

Regards,

Khalid