Status of Native ROOT GUI Port to Win32


At the ROOT 2000 Workshop Betrand Bellenot volunteered to attempt to port the ROOT native GUI to Windows. After some false starts he is now, since a few months, on the right track and progressing at a good pace. The screenshots below give an idea of the current status. The port uses the low level Win32 graphics API and does not make use of any X11 compatibily library and does not require an X server.

Although looking fairly complete a lot still needs to be done, especially the combined event handling of GUI, keyboard, timer and socket events. Due to his demanding day-time job Bertrand can not commit to a firm completion date but he expects a first release late Q3 2001.

Status as of 24 April 2001:


Betrand Bellenot, Rene Brun, Fons Rademakers
Last update 24/4/2001 by FR