Hi Valeri and Fons,
Thanks for your help, that last suggestion did the trick.
Thanks again,
Simon
On 17 Mar 2002, Fons Rademakers wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> currently what you want is a bit tricky to do due to the fact that the
> methods in TRootGuiFactory are not virtual. So what you need to do:
>
> - derive from TGuiFactory a class TMyGuiFactory.
> - copy complete contents from TRootGuiFactory to TMyGuiFactory.
> - change CreateBrowserImp to create your TMyRootBrowser instead of a
> TRootBrowser.
> - in your application before creating any browser call:
> gGuiFactory = (TGuiFactory *) gROOT->ProcessLineFast("new
> TMyGuiFactory();");
>
> That should do it.
>
> I've made the methods in TRootGuiFactory virtual in the dev version in
> cvs, this will allow you to derive your TMyGuiFactory directly from
> TRootGuiFactory and allows you to override the CreateBrowserImp methods.
> For the rest you need to do the same to activate your TMyGuiFactory.
>
> Cheers, Fons.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 00:57, Simon Dean wrote:
> > Well, I'm not sure I understand it myself. I have basically attempted to
> > start modifying the TRootBrowser code to suit my own needs. TRootBrowser
> > accepts a TBrowser as input and within the ROOT code, this is a pure
> > TBrowser. However, in my case the TBrowser is already supplied as a
> > TRootBrowser so my program produces a modified TRootBrowser based on
> > another TRootBrowser!
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Valeri Fine wrote:
> >
> > > The implementation of TBrowserImp is provided but TGuiFactory class.
> > > This means to get his own TBrowserImp one has to provide the custom
> > > version of TGuiFactory. So far so good. Alas the name of the share libary
> > > with the "custom" version of TGuiFactory class implementation is hardcoded
> > > by TApplication class
> > >
> > > See:
> > > http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/src/TApplication.cxx.html#TApplication:Load
> > > GraphicsLibs
> > >
> > > It sounds it is not trivial to do what you want.
> > > (May be Fons will correct me). By the way I can image why you did
> > > get TRootBrowser but how did you manange to get your browser as well ?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Valeri
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Simon Dean" <sdean@hep.man.ac.uk>
> > > To: <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:09 PM
> > > Subject: [ROOT] Unwanted TRootBrowser
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to code a class which inherits from TBrowserImp. The problem is
> > > > that whenever I initialise a TBrowser to pass into my class, the system
> > > > decides for me that I actually want a TRootBrowser. This is quite annoying
> > > > and I end up with two GUIs on screen neither of which is what I want.
> > > >
> > > > How can I get round this?
> > > >
> > > > cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Simon
> > > >
> > >
>
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