Micromod Micro-DCI: 53HC2600 LoopMaster SL6000 CONFIGURATION TOOLKIT - Manual (Page 25)

53HC2600 INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Guided Tour 17
3.0 GUIDED TOUR
3.1 Starting LoopMaster
In this section, we will take a brief tour through LoopMaster and generate a simple offline configuration.
3.1.1 To start LoopMaster
1. From Program Manager, double-click on the LoopMaster icon. The main LoopMaster window
will be drawn while the application initializes.
2. The opening dialog displays version, copyright and trademark information. Click OK.
To help you get started, LoopMaster presents a few dialogs. These startup dialogs help you open the
desired configuration.
3.2 Online Or Offline?
The Micro-Mite controller is configured by setting up its configuration database. LoopMaster provides two
ways to set up a configuration database:
• Offline Configuration: Develop the configuration database in personal computer memory
and save it to a file, then download the entire database into Micro-Mite memory.
• Online Configuration: Connect a Micro-Mite controller to your personal computer and
manipulate its database through this connection.
In addition to storing the Micro-Mite controller database, offline configurations can also store transmitter
tagnames and other rear connection information. This additional information is used to produce a more
complete configuration report. Use of offline configurations is therefore recommended whenever possible.
✎ NOTE
If a warning message appears indicating LoopMaster detected a
faulty version of THREED.VBX, the startup will terminate. If this
message appears, see
Section 7.3.1, THREED.VBX Display
Problems .
✎ NOTE For display problems, see Section 7.3, Display Problems .
Figure 3-1. The Online or Offline? Dialog Box