News Archive -2009

A new development snapshot of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready: Many changes in the program core and the possibility to filter erroneous frames and message before showing them in the window.

For details and to download this snapshot see Download | Development Snapshot .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The new Approved Release A.01.46 of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready.

The protocols IEC 61850, MODBUS TCP/IP and Landis&Gyr TG 809 are newly added. There is a long list of improvements and enhancement in all areas.

We recommend all customers to change to this Approved Release.

For details how to download this release see Products | CPTT | 01.46 .

In international business a short company name makes life easier. After the German requirements for a company name were reduced in the last years now we simplified our company name for our customers and us to:

   Real Thoughts GmbH

At the same time we changed our telephone numbers. The old numbers of the central switch board of the [ Technologiefabrik Karlsruhe ] are up for a short time, our new telephone numbers are:

  phone +49 721 627 6730
  Fax +49 721 627 6731

The changes are summarized in RealThoughtsChanges.pdf (82K) . Print the PDF and attach it to your documents!

In Imprint you find additional details to Real Thoughts GmbH .

A development cycle of COMPROTware:Testtool comes close to an end.
Within a short time the new Approved Release will be published. Therefore we would like to make the current snapshot available as the Release Candidate for the upcoming release.

For details and the download of this version see Download | Development Snapshot .

We are open to any suggestion or Problem Report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

This development snapshot of COMPROTware:Testtool needs to be specially mentioned because with this version the protocol IEC 61850 becomes available to the users.

Currently everyone talks about IEC 61850 because it should become THE common transmission protocol for station automation worldwide. Therefore we implemented monitoring in COMPROTware:Testtool so that our customers can not only talk but also look inside the protocol.

We implemented IEC 61850-8-1 with mapping of the object modell to MMS (Manufacturing Message Specification) and GOOSE (Generic Object Oriented Substation Event) in CPTT.

For details and the download of this version see Download | Development Snapshot .

We are open to any suggestion or Problem Report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The Approved Release A.01.44.c of COMPROTware:Testtool with some corrections and enhancements compared to CPTT A.01.44 is ready.
In the last four weeks we corrected some bugs found in the last version A.01.44. Meanwhile the new feature Create Message List from Message Storage and the support for new DNP3 reserved addresse were added.

We recommend all customers to change to this Approved Release.

For details and the download of this release see Products | CPTT | 01.44 .

Completato un altro passo per rendere internazionale CPTT: l´interfaccia utente è ora tradotta in italiano. Abbiamo molti clienti in Italia. Siamo sicuri che la traduzione in italiano renderà loro più facile e confortevole luso dello strumento. Con laggiunta della nuova traduzione, ci sono ora quattro linguaggi disponibili: inglese, spagnolo, italiano e tedesco. Quale sarà il prossimo?

Here comes the next step of the internationalization of CPTT: The User Interface is translated to the Italian language. A lot of our customers are from Italy. With the Italian translation we are sure that we will make our tool more comfortable and easy to use form them. With the new translation added there are now four language available: English, spanish, Italian and German. What should come next?

Potete scaricare la versione X.01.43.c dal seguente collegamento: Download | Development Snapshot .

Siamo felici di ricevere vostri suggerimenti e Problem Report! Inviateli via mail: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The development snapshot X.01.43.c is available for download from: Download | Development Snapshot .

We are open to suggestions or Problem Reports! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The development work on CPTT was very fruitful in the last weeks. The main focus of the enhancements was the Message View Filtering and Export to file. The implementation of both points got substantial extensions. Read more on this on the page to the development snapshot, there you can also download the X.01.43.b snapshot: Download | Development Snapshot .

We are open to any suggestion or Problem Report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The new Approved Release A.01.42 of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready.
There is a long list of improvements and enhancement, mainly in the handling of CPTT, in the internationalization and in customer support. Message Filtering was extended and the protocol implementation were maintained.

We recommend all customers to change to this Approved Release.

For details how to download this release see Products | CPTT | 01.42 .

Esta versión del estado actual de desarrollo constituye para nosotros un gran paso hacia la internacionalización de CPTT. Ahora nuestra interfaz gráfica "habla" además de inglés, español y Alemán.

A pesar de que la funcionalidad básica para la internacionalización de CPTT fue desarrollada hace algunos años, la capacidad de agregar y mantener otros idiomas no era lo suficientemente eficiente. Gracias a un rediseño hemos superado este obstáculo y podemos ahora ofrecer a nuestros usuarios hispano-hablantes una nueva interfaz gráfica en español.

Dieser Entwicklungsschnappschuss stellt für uns einen großen Schritt zur weiteren Internationalisierung von CPTT dar: Die Bedienoberfläche "spricht" nun zusätzlich zu Englisch auch spanisch und Deutsch.

Die Basisfunktionalität für die Internationalisierung von CPTT ist schon seit Jahren realisiert, das Hinzufügen und Pflegen weiterer Sprachen war jedoch bisher nicht ausreichend effizient genug möglich. Durch ein Redesign ist diese Hürde jetzt genommen und damit können wir unseren deutschen Anwendern nun auch eine deutsche Bedienoberfläche anbieten.

La versión del estado actual de desarrollo X.01.41.i se encuentra disponible para descargar aquí: Download | Development Snapshot .
Aceptamos con gusto sugerencias y reportes de problemas: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

Der Entwicklungsschnappschuss X.01.41.i steht zum Runterladen bereit unter: Download | Development Snapshot .
Anregungen und Problem Reports nehmen wir gerne entgegen: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The development snapshot X.01.41.g is available for download: Download | Development Snapshot .
The highlights of this snapshot are the correction of the "Fast Running System Clock" problem and the "GUI Clean Up" project.

We are open to any suggestion or Problem Report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

We added to our product COMPROTware:Testtool an additional protocol: The fieldbus protocol ABB SPA-Bus.
You may download the extended Release CPTT A.01.40.a with the implementation of ABB SPA-Bus from Products | CPTT | Downloads (The protocol implementation needs to be licensed from us. With the download you do not get any license).

For further informationen contact: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The new Approved Release A.01.40 of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready. Compared to the last development snapshot only some detail improvements were made ... the development snapshot was already very stable.

We recommend all customers to change to this Approved Release.

For details how to download this release see Products | CPTT | Downloads .

The products and services of Real Thoughts are used worldwide - Our customers are widespread over all continents. Intercultural contacts are part of our daily work. Why not promote these kind of contacts?

No sooner thought than done: In the context of [ AIESEC TWIN 2003 ] Real Thoughts sponsored one participant of this AIESEC workshop.

We wish all participants a week full of experience in the [ TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe ] .

The new development snapshot T.01.39.o of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready! It is the last release candidate before the new Approved Release A.01.40 will be published.

We did many changes to the DNP3 implementation, to the GUI and to general parts. Also a new feature is implemented: Remote I/O Client/Server. This feature allows to display protocol traffic captured on a remote MS Windows/Linux/UNIX machine on your MS Windows desktop.

More details about the development snapshot and how to download it on page Products | CPTT | Downloads .

The new Approved Release A.01.38.b of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready. In the last 2 weeks since the publication of development snapshot X.01.37.f some minor problems have been solved.

We recommend all customers to change to this Approved Release.

For details how to download this release see Products | CPTT | Downloads .

Today we published the new development snapshot X.01.37.f of COMPROTware:Testtool . This development snapshot is the first release candidate for the Approved Release A.01.38. It is already very close to the Approved Release.

The main changes are the support of all modem signals and the interactive edit windows for DNP3-1999-, MODBUS- and ABB RP57x-messages. Moreover many user suggestions are included in the software.

More details about the development snapshot and how to download it on page Products | CPTT | Downloads .

Release A.01.36.d of COMPROTware:Testtool is now available. Among of some minor corrections the following changes are new:
DNP3-1999 over LAN/WAN with simulation of master/slave station and Network Monitoring is implemented.
New MODBUS parameter "Auto. gen. Response": Missing responses are automatically generated.

Warning message if Message Log file is too large for reading and was truncated.

For details how to download this release see Products | CPTT | Downloads .

The new Approved Release A.01.36 of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready. In the last 6 weeks since the publication of development snapshot X.01.35.f many minor problems have been solved and the installation manual has been updated for MS Windows 2000 and MS Windows XP installations.
We recommend all customers to change to this Approved Release.
For details how to download this release see Products | CPTT | Downloads .

We will start immediately with development for future releases: CPTT A.01.36 is the last release which is running on Java Runtime Environment 1.1.x. To improve the Graphical User Interface (e.g. file selection dialog, window size, tabular print outs, message editing, ...) it is necessary to switch to Java2 Standard Edition for all upcoming releases.
Other major tasks in the new release are the improvement of message editing (esp. for DNP3-1999) and the implementation of a new concept for automation of protocol testing.

The last planed development snapshot X.01.45.f before the new Approved Release A.01.36 of COMPROTware:Testtool is ready.
The most interesting news are: CPTT is now available for all Microsoft Windows versions: From MS Windows 95, 98, 98SE and ME through MS Windows NT4 up to MS Windows 2000 and MS Windows XP. With this Network Monitoring for TCP/IP based protocols can now also be used with MS Windows 2000 and MS Windows XP.

And the evaluation of "dongle towers" with several dongles containing different licenses is now running correctly on all platforms.
More details about the development snapshot and how to download it on page Products | CPTT | Downloads .

In the last 9 month we could add three more countries to our CPTT worldmap: Norway, Saudi Arabia and Estonia.
We are proud to be able to deliver our software to all of these countries.
For more details have a look on page CPTT worldwide.

The new development snapshot X.01.35.e is now available. High system ressources consumption is solved. The development snapshot can be downloaded from Products | CPTT | Downloads .

On August, 20th we shipped our new Approved Release A.01.34 of COMPROTware:Testtool. After more than half a year of development time we can now offer an extended and enhanced Release to our customers. A big amout of development time was used for the reliable and robust implementation of Communication Gap Supervision: With this feature it is possible to recognise communication gaps (as far as this is possible with MS Windows). At the same time the implementation was maintained and enhanced.

The new Release can be downloaded from Products | CPTT | Downloads .

With some pride of the developer we introduced a page on our Website which lists all countries we delivered CPTT to. We think you will be surprised ...
CPTT worldwide.