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Chapter 2 Lookout Basics
© National Instruments Corporation 2-5 Lookout Operator’s Manual
Menu Bar
The menu bar displays the currently available menu commands. Some of
these commands may or may not be available to you, depending on your
security level.
Status Bar
The status bar is at the bottom of the Lookout window. When in run mode,
the status bar is gray and the time and date are displayed on the left end of
the bar. The account name of the currently logged on operator comes next.
The company name as entered during registration appears in the middle,
and the alarm status is on the right end of the status bar.
Lookout Workspace
The Lookout workspace is the area between the menu bar and the status
bar. The workspace is the area in which you view and operate control
panels. The alarm window also appears within the workspace. You
organize and arrange control panels in this workspace area.
The visible workspace on your screen is only a window into the Lookout
virtual workspace. If control panels or their associated icons are partially
or completely outside the visible workspace, Lookout automatically
displays horizontal and vertical scroll bars along the right side and bottom
of the visible workspace. If scroll bars are visible, you can scroll around in
the virtual workspace to see all of your control panels.
Control Panels
Control panels provide the display area for any collection of switches,
knobs, bar graphs, digital displays, trend graphs, and other components that
you want to use to visually monitor and control your operations. Panels can
be full-screen, minimized, or any size in between. You can move the panels
around the screen by grabbing the title bar of a panel with the mouse cursor
and dragging it to a new location. Control panels can also “pop up” when
an event occurs such as when a pushbutton is pressed or when an alarm is
activated.
There are three types of control panels: normal, pop-up, and pop-up with
no icon. A normal control panel can be maximized, normal size, or
minimized within the Lookout workspace. A pop-up control panel in either