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What's new in LOGO!Soft Comfort V8.0?
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  in v8 demo help file

The features described below are only used for LOGO!Soft Comfort V8.0.

New features

LOGO!Soft Comfort V8.0 provides a brand new user interface with the following features:

  -- Consistent application menu display
  -- New network project-based working approach
  -- Split display of diagram mode and network project mode
  -- Split display of standard toolbar in the general software interface, showing the programming toolbar under diagram mode, and showing the networking toolbar under project mode
  -- Split window display with focus control switching and drag-and-drop connections capabilities
Ability to work on a network project with tasks of saving, loading, creating and closing the network project
  -- New access control settings to authorize online access with different access occasions
  --  Ability to create connections through configuring NI and NQ function blocks
  -- Ability to configure screen display for message, power-on screen and flags into:
    + 4 lines for LOGO! devices prior to 0BA8
    + 6 lines for LOGO! devices of 0BA8
  -- New graphical reference for the function block of parameter box in FBD diagrams
  -- Enhanced system security through setting user passwords and access level accounts through access control settings


Other software updates

LOGO!Soft Comfort V8.0 also includes updates to improve the software performance and ease of use, for example:

  -- Support for up to 20 digital outputs and 8 analog outputs
  -- Support for a longer block name of up to 12 characters in ASCII format
  -- New layout recovery abilities after you download the circuit program and load it again
  -- New parameters of sunrise offset and sunset offset in the astronomical clock function block
  -- New access control list of up to 8 list items through dynamic IP filter
  -- New diagnostic panel with different kinds of error information:
    + 4 types of error information for 0BA7
    + 5 types of error information for 0BA8

Programming improvement:

  -- Ability to create connections without choosing the connector tool
  -- Ability to add a single block with only a single click the block
  -- Ability to add multiple blocks repeatedly using the stamp function by double-clicking the block
  -- Support for saving a diagram to SD card as a Bin file which can be executed by LOGO! Basic directly
  -- Zooming effects update for zoom in and zoom out
  -- Support for displaying 3 cams in the same panel of the Weekly timer funtion block
  -- Support for using comma or semicolon as CSV separator
  -- New printing defaults to only print the function blocks added in the circuit diagram
  -- Ability to check the open blocks in a diagram and display them in the info window (with the short-cut of F2)
  -- Support for adding and configuring a client/server connection
  -- New project-based working approach
  -- LOGO!Soft Comfort V8.0 provides a brand new working method with which you can easily build up your network project in a conceptual network view. You are even able to configure network connections by simply dragging and dropping the I/O points of the devices or the network compliant function blocks from one to another.
