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Welcome to SCADA ProcessViewer
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SCADA ProcessViewer is a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition system 
written in Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE.
The Free Pascal is platform independent, so you can write a SCADA project
once and then run it on various platforms without changing code.

Free Pascal at www.freepascal.org is a fast object pascal compiler (and more),
that runs on more than 20 platforms (linux, windows, BSD, OS/2, DOS, PowerPC,
and many more).

The Lazarus currently supports linux (gtk, gtk2 and qt4), all flavours of windows,
even wince, Mac OS X (gtk, qt4 and carbon), FreeBSD (gtk, gtk2).
There is experimental support for Solaris and the native pascal backend fpgui
which runs on windows, wince and linux.

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Compilation:
Start the Lazarus IDE, open and compile projects "processviewer" and "processmaker".

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Installation and Requirements:

See the "docs/".

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Usage:

See the "docs/".

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Documentation:

The official site is processviewer.sourceforge.net. In the future there you will 
find the FAQ - the frequently asked questions and documents about specific topics.
Examples of projects can be found in the 'project' directory.
Help, documents and files about Free Pascal are at www.freepascal.org.
Help, documents and files about Lazarus are at www.lazarus.freepascal.org.


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Mailing list:

In the future will be a mailing list for ProcessViewer, where the
developers will interact, share ideas, discuss problems, and of course answer
questions.
You can subscribe at
http://processviewer.sourceforge.net

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How to help lazarus:

If you find bugs, don't hesitate to use the bug tracking tool at the website,
or send an email to the list.
Patches can be sent as .zip or .tgz attachments directly to the mailing list if
small, or (preferably) to the bug tracker at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/processviewer/