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You have decided that your
Async Professional
program needs one final touch: status lights to show modem activity. So,
you drop a few of the ApdStatusLight components on the from. You even
remember to drop an ApdSLController and assign each StatusLight to one
of the elements of the Lights property of the controller.
 
The ApdStatusLight and ApdSLController components
Everything is ready to dazzle your user with a blinking Christmas
tree of lights. You start the program and...the lights don't work! Your
modem lights are blinking but the StatusLights are not. What's wrong?
What you may have missed is setting the Controller's run-time only
Monitoring property to True. Run-Time properties don't appear in the
Object Inspector, you have to set them in code.
Be careful: you can't set the Monitoring property any old time. It
should be set only after the port has been opened and any user status
triggers have been defined.
Take care of this sometimes overlooked step and you will be set. Oh,
by the way, you did remember to assign a comport to the controller,
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