[Lintouch-announce] Lintouch 1.6.1 released

[Martin Man]

Lintouch 1.6.1 Release Announcement

Lintouch Team

<lintouch-dev at lintouch.org>

September 13th, 2005

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What's New In Lintouch 1.6.1

    2.1. Global Changes

3. Obtaining and Installing Lintouch

    3.1. Ready Made Binaries
    3.2. Sources

4. What is Lintouch

1. Introduction

After two months of development we (the Lintouch Team) are proud to announce
the availability of the new stable release of the Lintouch Server, Lintouch
Runtime, and Lintouch Editor.

This is the maintenance version including bug fixes and several new features.
You are welcome to download, install, test, and use this version.

Please see Section 4, “What is Lintouch” for more information about Lintouch.

2. What's New In Lintouch 1.6.1

2.1. Global Changes

Lua Server Plugin

    Newly developed Lua server plugin can be used to easily prototype projects
    without any physical connectivity to the real monitored system. It allows
    the users to use scripting language Lua (http://www.lua.org) with
    Pascal-like syntax to manipulate Lintouch variables.

    We are using this Plugin to create simulations of the real physical system
    in the situations where the real system is not available (tradeshows,
    Lintouch demonstration CDs, etc.).

Usability & Bugfixes

    Several critical bugs leading to Editor crash have been fixed.

3. Obtaining and Installing Lintouch

3.1. Ready Made Binaries

Lintouch can be downloaded and installed directly on the Windows and Linux
based platforms. The detailed instructions are available at our website.

The list of supported platforms includes Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, SuSE Linux
9.x, Debian/GNU Linux 3.1 (sarge), and LSB based distributions. Source RPM
archives are provided in order to support other RPM based Linux distributions.

3.2. Sources

The source code of Lintouch Runtime and Lintouch Server is distributed under
the GNU General Public License 2. It can be downloaded and compiled by hand.
The detailed instructions are available at our website.

4. What is Lintouch

Lintouch is a real-time data monitoring/controlling system used in automation
industry and developed by S.W.A.C. GmbH Germany and S.W.A.C. Bohemia s.r.o.

Lintouch is an effort to build fully software-based open source control panel
software suite. Control panels are usually called HMI - Human Machine
Interface, or MMI - Man Machine Interface in the automation industry.

Lintouch supports variety of hardware/software platforms (Win32+Intel,
Linux+Intel, Linux+PPC).

Lintouch has been designed with extensibility in mind. New Server Plugins can
be developed to bring in new connectivity (ModBus/TCP, and Hilscher already
available). New Templates (GUI Objects) can be implemented to define new
control and visualization primitives (Buttons, Lamps, and other Technical
Objects already available).

To get more information about Lintouch please visit our website
http://lintouch.org.

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