Re: [ROOT] Qt changes in CVS

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 10:38:39 MEST


I am reluctant to reply to this impertinent mail. Anyway, some remarks:

On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Anton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it took only half a year to add a few lines of Denis Qt hooks into CVS.
> Thanks. But I am still curious if Fons is going to do what he has
> promised once, i.e. handling. root keyboard events, interrupts and
> timers in Qt bridge. Or perhaps he is busy with porting ROOT on
>
I never promised to do this myself. I would accept reasonable changes in
ROOT to facilitate this. Denis agreed to look in the Qt eventloop integration
and we have to wait till he comes around doing it.

> something more advanced than Compaq pocket PC? I suggest CASIO
> electronic watches as the next step in ROOT development.
>
> 
> >ROOT's portability and modularity were confirmed by its port to the
> Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC
> 
> It was rather proven that linux X server runnig on above works.
>
Has nothing to do with the X server running. Whole ROOT runs in 10MB natively
on the device without swap space. I've already a little GUI that allows the
control and monitoring of a DAQ system with QoS histograms on the iPAQ using
a wireless lan connection. Usefulness can be debated but I think it is an
interesting option.

> Otherwise I would like to remind you about win NT ROOT portability and
> other issues remaining untouched from ROOT 2000.
> 

Much more advanced than you think, we hope to come with a full release
in a few months. The drawing of all GUI components with exact 1:1 look
between X11 and Win32 already works. Work is now focused on the Win32 eventloop
where we have to synchronize the Win32 GUI messages, keyboard input thread,
sockets and timers. This work is being done by Bertrand Bellenot as he 
promised during ROOT 2000.


Cheers, Fons.

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