Re: [ROOT] Progress of port of ROOT native GUI to Windows...

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 19:24:12 MEST


Hi Christian,

The GUI test programs are available in $ROOTSYS/test/guitest.cxx
and a new one in 3.01/02 called guiviewer.cxx

Rene Brun

cstrato@EUnet.at wrote:
> 
> Dear Fons, dear Rooters
> 
> Although a Mac-user, I find it great that the GUI of root will also become
> cross-platform, since this is one of the great fetures of root.
> 
> However, my reason to write is the GUI Demo1 and Demo 2
> of the GUI port to windows:
> Since these demos seem to be extremely useful, my question is:
> Is it possible to get the code of these demos?
> Does the code already exist somewhere?
> Could it be placed in the tutorials?
> 
> Best regards
> Christian
> ----------------------------------
> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n  S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
> V.i.e.n.n.a.  A.U.S.T.R.I.A
> e-mail: cstrato@EUnet.at
> 
> Fons Rademakers wrote:
> 
> > Dear ROOTers,
> >
> >   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
> > at
> >
> > http://root.cern.ch/root/win32progress/Win32GUI.html
> >
> > give a good 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. As you can see the look on Windows is exactly the
> > same as on Unix and MacOS X. Once this work is finished, the ROOT GUI classes
> > can be used as a truely cross-platform GUI framework.
> >
> > Cheers, Fons.
> >
> > --
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> > E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch              Phone: +41 22 7679248
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