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Lintouch 1.10 released

Thursday, May 25 2006

We (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce the immediate availability of Lintouch 1.10 open source HMI suite. Lintouch is available in binary formats for Windows and Linux operating systems.

The full press release for Lintouch 1.10 is available here.

Lintouch 1.10 API documentation

Saturday, Apr 29 2006

The developers may be interested in the Lintouch API documentation, that we put today on our website. The documentation is available for online browsing here.

Lintouch 1.8.1 released

Monday, Jan 23 2006

We (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce the immediate availability of Lintouch 1.8.1 open source HMI suite. Lintouch is available in binary formats for Windows and Linux operating systems.

The full press release for Lintouch 1.8.1 is available here.

Lintouch 1.6.2 released

Tuesday, Nov 01 2005

We (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce the immediate availability of Lintouch 1.6.2 open source HMI suite. Lintouch is available in binary formats for Windows and Linux operating systems.

The full press release for Lintouch 1.6.2 is available here.

Lintouch 1.6.1 released

Tuesday, Sep 13 2005

We (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce the immediate availability of Lintouch 1.6.1 open source HMI suite. Lintouch is available in binary formats for Windows and Linux operating systems.

The full press release for Lintouch 1.6.1 is available here.

Lintouch Modbus/TCP Server Plugin 1.6.1 released

Wednesday, Jul 20 2005

Maintenance release of Modbus/TCP Plugin has been released. It fixes logical bug that prevented ModbusTCPMaster from starting up.

You can get the plugin here here.

Lintouch 1.6 released

Friday, Jul 01 2005

We (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce the immediate availability of Lintouch 1.6 open source HMI suite. Lintouch is available in binary formats for Windows and Linux operating systems.

The full press release for Lintouch 1.6 is available here.

Lintouch RPM Packages for SuSE Linux 9.x available

Friday, Jun 03 2005

Lintouch Team is proud to announce that RPM packages of stable Lintouch 1.4.x series for SuSE Linux 9.x have been prepared. They are available from our download section.

As a side result, we are also shipping source RPM files (known as SRPM files) that can be used to build Lintouch easily for your RPM based Linux distribution.

Lintouch Development Weekly News

Monday, May 02 2005

Welcome to the twentieth issue of the LDWN.

It has been awhile since the last report from Lintouch Team. We believe it is the right time to inform you about the latest and greatest from the Lintouch Land.

Python not needed anymore, aka Lintouch Server written in C. It took some 7 man days to take existing Lintouch libraries _libltfsm_, _libltvariables_, _libltcp_, and very cool APR + APR Util[1] library to reimplement Lintouch Server while keeping the list of supported features untouched.

1. http://apr.apache.org

Lintouch Server now takes less than 100kb of the hard drive space (without libc + APR + Linux itself) which makes it suitable for low-storage-space devices. Lintouch Server Plugins have to be written in C from now on. We have already reimplemented demonstration _Loopback_ and _Generator_ plugins and the work on _ModbusTCPMaster_ and _ModbusTCPSlave_ plugins is going on right now.

Lintouch Editor received UI polishing related to move/resize selection handles used to manipulate templates. The handles are now drawn outside of the template area and allow templates to be resized to very small sizes. Moreover the handles are now always visible and can not be obscured with other templates. This was the case with Lintouch Editor 1.4 and it was one of the main drawbacks while handling complicated configurations of multiple overlying templates.

Lintouch _SNMP_ Server Plugin will allow the Lintouch to periodically poll SNMP manageable devices and obtain string/numerical/boolean typed OIDs and visualize them with templates. The pilot net-snmp[2] based implementation is already available in SVN[3].

2. http://www.net-snmp.org
3. https://lintouch.org/repos/lintouch/lsp-snmp

Lintouch _Exec_ Server Plugin[4] will allow the user to periodically execute configured commands at the server machine and grab their return value (and/or their output) much the same way Nagios[5] is doing its network checks.

4. https://lintouch.org/repos/lintouch/lsp-exec
5. http://www.nagios.org

Both of these plugins are scheduled to be available for Linux and Windows within Lintouch 1.6.

Lintouch Qwt Template Library is being worked on. It will make the widgets from Qwt Library[6] available as Lintouch Templates.

6. http://qwt.sourceforge.net

Lintouch 1.6 is scheduled to be available beginning of July 2005. We are stepping aside from our standard 6-months-per-stable-release plan and we would like to get 1.6 out as soon as possible.

Until then the adventurous and living-on-the-bleeding-edge-like people can try out our automatically generated nighly snapshots[7]. They are verified to compile under Linux and can be useful if you want to taste what will be in 1.6.

7. http://builder.lintouch.org/~mman/snapshots

That's all folks for this week, if you have any comments, corrections or ideas to be published, feel free to contact me directly[0].

0. mailto:mman@swac.cz.

Lintouch 1.4.1 released

Wednesday, Mar 23 2005

We (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce the immediate availability of Lintouch 1.4.1 open source HMI suite. Lintouch is available in binary formats for Windows and Linux operating systems.

This is the bugfix release containing several functionality fixes and improvements in shipped template libraries.

The full press release for Lintouch 1.4 is available here.

Lintouch 1.4 released

Monday, Mar 07 2005

We (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce the immediate availability of Lintouch 1.4 open source HMI suite. Lintouch is available in binary formats for Windows and Linux operating systems.

The full press release including the changes and download instructions is available here.