Re: RE : VC++6.0 and 7.0 are not supported anymore from ROOT4-04-2 or newer

Dear Fons

See: http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk03/5174.html

I have just tested this old example, which you can still download from the site: "testconnect.tar.gz". The problems are as described before.

Best regards
Christian

Fons Rademakers wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> concerning you GUI, the only thing you have to remember is that you
> cannot derive in scripts from compiled classes and call virtual methods
> of the base class. However, with the night signal/slot mechanism this is
> not a problem anymore for GUI's, check $ROOTSYS/tutorials/guitest.C.
>
> Cheers, Fons.
>
>
>
> cstrato wrote:
>

>> Dear Fons
>>
>> GUI:
>> It is not easy to demonstrate this since pretty complex GUIs do
>> run with CINT. However, when I want to use predefined widgets from
>> my own library, CINT is no longer able to use these widgets, although
>> it was possible in root 3.xx.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> Fons Rademakers wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>>
>>> cstrato wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Subset of C++:
>>>> Maybe, I should restate this as follows: It would be great if
>>>> the ROOT source code could be compiled on most modern platforms
>>>> (which is still the case), and more importantly, if all ROOT
>>>> classes could be used in CINT.
>>>> In the past I have often mentioned that I consider ROOT/CINT an
>>>> ingenious combination. The possibility to write macros, test my
>>>> code interactively, and compile it on the fly, has changed the
>>>> way I am developing programs. Sorrowly, since some time I am no
>>>> longer able to test my GUI code using CINT, I have to compile it
>>>> with ACLiC in order to run it as macro. Furthermore, I am not
>>>> able to use some classes on the Mac, such as the TMLP classes.
>>>>
>>> What is the problem with the GUI in the interpreter? And what is the 
>>> problem with TMLP on MacOS X?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Fons.
>>>
>>>