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How can we merge various Lookout4.5 processes into a single ?

Problem Description:

Dear Sir,

We are working on a big project, which is populated with many
number of screens. I want to know, if we develop the screens
on two different PCs, how can we merge these processes into a
single Lookout process on a PC ?

As per my knowledge we can not copy objects from a panel in one
Lookout process to a panel in other Lookout process.

A detailed explaination would help us a lot.
Waiting for a quick and positive response...

With Warm Regards,
Raja Mahbubani
Theta Controls, Pune
India.
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Hi,

Are you developing just the panels with static graphics on different machines, or are you developing actual parts of your applications on different machines?

If you're just developing the static panels (without any connections, etc.), then you can copy and paste the source code from the LKS file of one into another and then compile the final LKS file. Open the LKS files in any text editro for copying and pasting. Save them as '.LKS' files. To compile, select and open the LKS file type from the Open File dialog.

If however you are developing actual parts of your application on different PCs with their connections, expressions, etc., then you can just use these multiple processes as they are. Lookout allows multiple processes to run simultaneously. This will
actually be good in managing and maintaining your application later on. Design so that each process represents a logical and somewhat independent part of your application.

And to the end user it will be transparent -- she doesn't need to know and won't know that there are multiple processes running. Just make sure you're using right connection path types and all you'll need to do when done is load all processes together!

As an aside, I strongly recomment you read the following excellent article on developing and deploying big Lookout applications:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzoneweb.nsf/opendoc?openagent&188DC785CCA67DE88625689A00569D5A&cat=E19C863AC8C6235B862567FA0068EA4A



Hope all this helps,

Regards,

Khalid 🙂




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