Lintouch 1.6.2 Release Announcement

November 1st, 2005


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What's New In Lintouch 1.6.2
2.1. Global Changes
3. Obtaining and Installing Lintouch
3.1. Ready Made Binaries
3.2. Sources
4. What is Lintouch
5. Screenshots

1. Introduction

Figure 1. Lintouch Logo

Lintouch Logo

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 1.6.2

2.1. Global Changes

Usability & Bugfixes

Templates in Editor can be locked via Project Templates Dialog when their properties are set and positioning is finished. Locked templates do not interact with the mouse in editing mode and thus make it easier to manipulate other templates in very complex projects.

Compilation & Bugfixes

Swaloun Framework + SharedPtr dependency has been dropped, which means that compilation of Lintouch from sources is now less complicated.

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, and Debian/GNU Linux 3.1 (sarge). 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.

Lintouch Editor is a commercial software available for free download. Full support can be purchased from S.W.A.C GmbH or S.W.A.C Bohemia s.r.o. See our website for more information.

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.

5. Screenshots

Figure 2. Lintouch Editor

Lintouch Editor Screenshot