# PANIC, Tango Alarm System
# http://www.tango-controls.org/community/projects/panic
# https://svn.code.sf.net/p/tango-ds/code/DeviceClasses/SoftwareSystem/PyAlarm/tags/latest

PANIC IS SUPPORTED ON LINUX ONLY, WINDOWS IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED (At least for the current and next release)

Panic package contains the python AlarmAPI for managing the PyAlarm device servers from a client 
application or a python shell. The panic module is used by PyAlarm, Panic Toolbar and Panic GUI.

The optional panic submodules are:

 panic.ds : PyAlarm device server
 panic.extra : PyAlarm/panic plugins (e.g., install here your smslib.py module)
 panic.gui :  Placeholder for the PanicGUI application


# PyAlarm Device Server
# https://svn.code.sf.net/p/tango-ds/code/DeviceClasses/SoftwareSystem/PyAlarm/tags/latest/panic/ds

PyAlarm is the alarm device server used by ALBA Alarm System, it requires PyTango and Fandango modules, 
both available from tango-cs.sourceforge.net

Some configuration panels in the GUI require PyAlarm to be available in the PYTHONPATH, to do so you can 
add the PyAlarm.py folder to the PYTHONPATH variable or copy the PyAlarm.py file within the panic folder; 
so it could be loaded as a part of the module.


# Panic GUI
# https://svn.code.sf.net/p/tango-ds/code/Clients/python/Panic/tags/latest

Panic is an application for controlling and managing alarms.
It allows the user to visualize existing alarms in a clear form and adding/editing/deleting alarms.
In edit mode user can change name, move alarms to another device, change descriptions and modify formulas.
Additional widgets in which the app is equipped allows alarm history viewing, phonebook editing and 
device settings manipulation.


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# TAGS 

trunk will contain current development
tags/latest will contain sources for building nightly packages
tags/release_* will contain stable releases

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Sergi Rubio
Alba Synchrotron 2006