Readme.htm for LOGO!Soft Comfort V8.1
(Note the license conditions on the DVD)
Contents
General
Installation
Uninstalling
Other Languages
Known Problems
Macintosh
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General
The start procedure for Setup and LOGO!Soft
Comfort can take quite a while on older computers, without anything visible on
the screen. Do not start the application more than once.
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Installation
Because Java does not always correctly handle platform-specific characters,
avoid using special characters such as ! / : ; \ . ? ' " in directory names.
You can alternatively install LOGO! Soft Comfort by copying the directory as
mentioned in step 1 below to your hard disk. The name of the executable program
is LOGOComfort.exe on MS-Windows, LOGOComfort.app on
Mac-OSX and LOGOComfort on Linux.
Proceed as follows if you want to copy LOGO!Soft Comfort to a server:
1. Copy the contents
of the following directory on the LOGO!Soft
DVD-ROM to the server:
l
<dvdrom>: \Windows\Application_32
or \Windows\Application_64
l
<dvdrom>: \Mac\Application
l
<dvdrom>: \Linux\Application_32 or
\Linux\Application_64
2. Set up a
connection to this server directory from the client side.
If you have
installed LOGO!Soft
Comfort on the server via setup, you must change all absolute path entries in
the .lax file (e.g. lib\classes.jar) to paths relative to the installation
directory.
You can alternatively copy the file from
, for example, \Windows\Application_32, of
the LOGO!Soft Comfort
DVD-ROM.
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Uninstalling
You can uninstall LOGO!Soft
Comfort on all platforms with the Uninstall program. On MS-Windows platforms,
for example, this program is located at
\UninstallerData\Uninstall.exe.
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Other Languages
By default, six languages are installed for LOGO!Soft Comfort. And the default language is the one
you selected during the installation process. You can change the languages as
below:
1.
Click "Tools"à"Options"
from the menu bar.
2.
Choose the language you want in the option
window and click "OK".
3.
Restart your LOGO!Soft Comfort.
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Known Problems
1.
Communication errors can occur if you operate LOGO! hardware with LOGO!Soft Comfort on MS-Windows Plug-and-Play operating
systems. To solve this problem, proceed as follows to reduce the length of the
FIFO buffer for the COM port as much as possible:
1) Click Properties,
and select the Port Settings tab.
2) Click Advanced,
and then set both Receive Buffer and Send Buffer to Low.
2.
If page border lines do not print, adjust page margins via File
> Page Setup.
3.
Printing to a Kyocera FS1600 printer can cause corruption of the text in
drawings. To solve this problem, install the "Kyocera FS1600+
(KPDL2)" printer driver. An English version of this driver is available on
your DVD, under<dvdrom>:/windows/printer/k9xpsen.exe.
For details about installing printer drivers, refer
to your operating system documentation.
4.
To solve printer problems, update your printer driver or install the
standard driver from your operating system CD.
5.
If printing problems persist, you can save the file in PDF format and
print it from Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can also save drawings in BMP or JPG
format or edit in other applications.
6.
To resolve flickering of the cursor in simulation mode, disable
user-specific mouse settings or the mouse tracking.
7. If the name of the bottom-level
installation directory on a Windows operating system contains a space, the
system cannot open LOGO!Soft
Comfort. Make sure you do not use any space characters in the bottom-level
installation directory name.
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Macintosh
Prerequisites
You have tested uploads/downloads of control programs from/to LOGO! hardware
with the Keyspan USB PDA adapter (Keyspan
USA-19) and the LOGO! USB PC-cable.
If LOGO!Soft Comfort cannot communicate with your LOGO!
Basic module via the serial port that corresponds to the Keyspan
USA-19 or the LOGO! USB PC-cable, check whether the /var/lock
folder is available in your file system. If unavailable, create this folder and
make sure you have full access privileges to it. You may also need to delete
any left-over lock files in the previous /var/spool/uucp folder if an older version of the RXRXComm
package was used before. Check these folders before you run the setup
application.
Installation
If you cannot execute the Setup_Mac.command Setup
program, you might not have the permissions to do so. This could be the
situation, for example, when you copy the Setup_Mac.command
from a Windows computer.
In order to change the user attributes for the Setup_Mac
file, do the following:
When you attempt to start Setup_Mac.command, you
receive the error message "Open Command File...".Acknowledge this
error message. In the next terminal window, first change the user attributes by
entering the following command at the prompt:
chmod a+x Setup_Mac.command
Next, input the ./Setup_Mac.command string to
start Setup. Also close the terminal window, and double-click the executable to
start Setup. Note that the file name is case sensitive.
Printing
MAC OS-X does not support printing in landscape format. If you need a
hardcopy in this format, use the “Save as” menu command to save the
drawing in PDF format and then print it.
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