[ROOT] Picture/Pixmap/Bitmap from data

From: Jacek M. Holeczek (holeczek@us.edu.pl)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 10:37:49 MET


Hi,
My colleague has met the problem that the performance of event display is
very low. Up to now a two dimensional histogram (TH2S, with channels
and samples as histogram bins and the signal amplitude, for a given
channel and sample, as a weight for the histogram entry) is used for the
event display. The problem is that in case of a large amount of channels
and samples (and this is the usual case) this method is very slow, and one
as to wait several minutes to have the histogram plotted (almost
independently from the machine, single and double PIII up to 750 MHz and
ATHLON 1.2 GHz give the same result).
We are looking for a way to improve it (significantly).
We think that, most probably, the best thing to do is to create a pixmap
or bitmap image, and plot it directly . There are methods like
"CreatePictureFromData", "CreatePixmap" and "CreateBitmap"in the
TGX11/TVirtualX (with the implementation in GX11Gui.cxx).
Do you have any hints on how to integrate this approach with ROOT ?
Or maybe you have any other suggestions ?
Thanks in advance,
Best regards,
Jacek.



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