Lookout 6.5 new Logon/Logoff feature does not save

[Traders]

I am excited to see that Lookout 6.5 has a new Logon/Logoff feature - but I am having minimal success with it. I am running Lookout 6.5 Integrator on a new Windows 7 Professional PC. If I go to $System Connections and double-click on the Logon Writeable member, Lookout goes dim and crashes. Once I have restarted lookout and go back into $System Connections, if I type "Logon" into the Select field and click on Select, then I can connect to a pushbutton, and the connection is confirmed in the Existing Connections list. The connection works - I can bring up the Logon window with the pushbutton. So far so good. One of the first things I notice is when I make this connection an asterisk (denoting a change in the file) does NOT appear beside the process file name on the top of the Lookout window. If I go to File\Save - Save is not bold - indicating there is no change in the file. If I go to File/Save As - I can save the process file but the Logon connection is not saved. If I shutdown Lookout and restart the process file - the Logon connection is not there. ????

[Ryan.S]

It's a bug.

Because of the lookout's architecture, we cannot allow user creating the connection in Edit Connections, that's why you don't see the Edit Connection when you right click on the Logon/Off in Object Explorer.

The expected usage is to right click on the Logon/off and drag onto the panel to create a pushbutton, or to create a pushbutton and edit its remote source(green field).

We will look into the crash.

[Traders · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your help, Ryan.

I find that by using a pushbutton and editing its remote source to the Logon, the pushbutton works (brings up the Logon window) but the pushbutton stays depressed.

As a work-around, I've used a sequencer fired by the pushbutton; sequencer output A is connected to the Logon, then a second later sequencer output B gives a FALSE to the pushbutton to make it pop back out. To connect the Logon to the sequencer output, I manually edited the .lks file with the required text, then re-compiled the process file. It s bit of a devious route, but now it works good.

Thanks.

[Ryan.S]

It's another but that the pushbutton keeps depressed. It's because the pop-up dialog box blocks the pushbutton's behaviour. We don't find a solution for it. So, you click on the pushbutton, logon/off dialog box pops up and the pushbutton stays drepressed and needs you to click it again...