Re: [ROOT] Making test example on win98

From: Nick van Eijndhoven (Nick@phys.uu.nl)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 15:43:27 MET


Hi Anton,
It is indeed the crashes etc... w.r.t. some canvas actions which I am referring to.
For instance, if you have a histo and rightclick on one of the axes in order to
enter an axis title, the canvas disappears as soon as you have entered the text.
In the browser one can still see the canvas, but the only way of getting the
plot (in which indeed the axis text appears correctly) back again is to create
a new canvas and draw the histo again in that canvas.
Setting selection criteria by rightclicking in a TTreeViewer window however
directly results in a crash of the ROOT session.
Note that TTreeViewer also automatically opens 2 windows instead of only 1.
The latter has been observed also by the ROOT developers as far as I have understood
but so far the problem hasn't been fixed yet.

In creating and executing my private programs and libs (i.e. 'batch' work),
everything works fine with the latest versions as far as I can see.
So, it is mainly the interactive analysis work which can not be performed
with version later than 2.22/10 on win98 machines, but needless to say
this is a very important feature which needs to function properly.  

                                                              Cheers,
                                                               Nick.

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Anton Fokin wrote:
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> actually I am not creating ROOT binaries from scratch but rather trying to
> compile my own (unix) project on win98. What are the problems around root
> 3.02 bins on win98? I've been quite successful with making my libs under
> win98 and running exe and scripts, although I have noted that root crashes
> on some actions with canvas etc.
> 
> PS. to "installshield" discussion. I checked out InstallShield coming with
> MSVC... It has "change registry" part in the install script, so what's the
> problem with setting paths under install? On the other hand what prevents
> you from writing a few lines in the shield script which will manually add
> two lines in autoexec.bat file? You have to restart com then but who
> cares...
> 
> Regards,
> Anton
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick van Eijndhoven <Nick@phys.uu.nl>
> To: Anton Fokin <anton.fokin@smartquant.com>
> Cc: roottalk <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>; Fons Rademakers
> <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch>; <dcasper@uci.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] Making test example on win98
> 
> > Hi Anton,
> > I am pleased to hear that you are creating ROOT binaries from scratch
> > on a Win98 platform.
> > As you know after ROOT 2.22/10 I have several problems when running the
> > ROOT binaries from the web on my win98 machine (you can ask Valery Fine
> > for details if you want). So win98 users are basically bound to stay with
> > the old 2.22/10 version.
> > I would like to suggest that once you have succeeded to create a
> completely
> > working set of ROOT binaries on a win98 system, that this version will
> also
> > be made available to the outside world via the ROOT web pages.
> > On the pages one could then indicate this version as win98 specific.
> > Could the ROOT team please consider this, since in our group many people
> > use laptops and for these things we have the feeling that the flexible
> win98
> > OS is much more convenient than winNT or win2000.
> >
> >                                                          Cheers,
> >                                                           Nick.
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven mailto:nick@phys.uu.nl http://www.phys.uu.nl/~nick
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> >
> >
> > Anton Fokin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > well, I was using Makefile included in the test directory. Yes, I saw
> > > Makefile.win32 in the same directory and I have tryied this one too (and
> it
> > > works somehow). Anyway, I suppose that if there is a Makefile in the
> binary
> > > distribution, it should be naturally related to this specific version of
> the
> > > distribution, so that a user can type nmake and get things compiled.
> > > Moreover, there is "win32" portion of lines in the Makefile, so that I
> > > assume this file is the correct one.
> > >
> > > Anyway, what I need is a makefile which works on both linux and win32,
> > > depending on a platform. Do we have such clever one? I am not win32/VC
> > > expert, so that I would like to get my linux root programs easily
> recompiled
> > > under win32. I thought I can use generic ROOT test Makefile upper part
> for
> > > that... Can I?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Anton
> >
> >



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