Christian, In my previous mail, I forgot to add the following comment. If you design the geometry for the FMD classes, use the TGeo classes and not the old TXTRU/TBRIK/etc classes. Rene Brun Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > Hi Again, > > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:18 +0100, Rene Brun wrote: > > Christian, > > > > I cannot comment on Castor. The installation procedure works OK on Unix systems > > and Windows. This is OK. > > I think I didn't make myself clear: Where do I get the source code for > the SHIFT libraries ROOT requires? Is is at > > http://savannah.cern.ch/projects/castor/ > > If so, shouldn't the options really be changed to `--with-castor-libdir' > etc.? > > > Concerning TViewerOIV: it is our intention to discontinue the support > > for this viewer. Our effort is going to TViewerOpenGL. This class provides far > > more functionality than the old OI viewer. > > OK. Why not remove the code from CVS, as it's not functional at all? > > The new OpenGL viewer is indeed very nice. A few questions: > > * However, I really miss the possibility of saving the current > scene to a file (.eps, .gif, .jpg, .svg, or what not) - but I > guess I'm not the first to raise that point :-) And I'm sure > you're dealing with it. > * Would it be possible to hide the light sources too? Ofcourse, > one can simply turn them off, but that removes the light too. > * In the attached script (a simplified version of the the ALICE > FMD3 geometry), the XTRU objects are not drawn right when you > look from the nose of the support cone, while they look find > when viewed from the back of the cone. When I turn on wireframe > display in the OpenGL viewer, I see that the XTRU objects > contain more lines than I've defined. It seems that one of the > triangles that make up the XTRU object is `dominating'. > > The new Ged classes are very nice too. A few questions: > > * I miss the buttons `Ok', `Apply', and `Cancel' (and possibly in > `Close') in the pop-ups. > * Also, sometimes, the pop-ups do not have a title bar and some > times they do. > * When enabling the editor, the canvas may be too small to hold > the full interface, in which case, one has to turn off the > auto-resize option and manually make the canvas larger. It > would be nice if there was a scrollbar instead. > > [I should probably say that I'm using GNOME 2.8 with metacity] > > Yours, > > -- > ___ | Christian Holm Christensen > |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- > | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 > _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 404 > ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm > | | > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Name: simpleGeometry.C > simpleGeometry.C Type: text/x-c++src > Encoding: 7bit
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