PackageDescription: WinTech OPC Interface


Win Tech OPC Interface

Last published: October 27, 2008 by 'mikeh'

Defines 21 Classes
Extends 15 Classes


A Smalltalk OPC Client Communications Bridge for OPCDA 2.0 and OPCDA 3.0 compliant servers.

The bridge is based on the WinTech wtclient.dll which handles all the icky COM stuff, and the OPCClientBridge.dll which makes it callable from Smalltalk. Additional runtime dll's are required an can be downloaded from the OPC foundation website:
http://www.opcfoundation.org

But I recommend installing the Matrikon OPC Tools, the best tools for OPC testing and debugging. The example methods in this package assume that you have the Matrikon OPC Simulation server installed on your machine. If you install the Matrikon tools, there is no need to download the runtime from the OPC foundation.
http://www.matrikonopc.com/downloads/178/software/index.aspx Simulation Server
http://www.matrikonopc.com/downloads/176/software/index.aspx OPC Explorer

WinTech is a commercial entity and sell licenses for their OPC connectivity. You must contact them for licensing and download. I am also a customer and am not affiliated with them an any other way.
http://www.win-tech.com/html/opc.htm

OPCClientBridge.dll simply calls the WinTech wtclient.dll, but is "extern 'C' 'd" in a way that it can be called from VisualWorks. The dll can be downloaded from:
http://www.xmission.com/~mlhales/opc/OPCClientBridge.dll
and a Microsoft Visual Studio 6 project with source code can be downloaded from:
http://www.xmission.com/~mlhales/opc/OPCClientBridge.zip

This package requires DLLCC.pcl and COMAutomation.pcl (necessary for dealing with VARIANT and friends) as prerequisites.

Examples can be found on the class side of WinTech.OPC

This code is released under the MIT License.

Mike Hales mike.hales@kscape.com

Copyright (c) 2007 LMHales, LLC

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