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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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
