Re: [ROOT] Progress of port of ROOT native GUI to Windows...

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 12:03:49 MEST


Hi Nick,

   when we will release it only the new GUI will be available, however,
since nothing except the lowlevel graphics has been changed (below the
pad and canvas), there should be no changes in the graphics. Anyway you
can always run an old version next to a new version.

Cheers, Fons.


Nick van Eijndhoven wrote:
> 
> Dear Fons and Bertrand,
> CONGRATULATIONS !
> This indeed looks good. As soon as a first (pre)release is available
> please let me know so that I can start trying things out.
> >From your mail I understand that no additional libs are needed, just the
> standard WIN32 API. Does this mean that in the pre-release one can
> have available both the ROOT GUI and the win graphics as they are now ?
> If that is the case it would be very convenient to compare the two
> running various analysis/test programs under windows.
> 
>                                                  Cheers,
>                                                   Nick.
> 
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> Fons Rademakers wrote:
> >
> > Dear ROOTers,
> >
> >   at the ROOT 2000 Workshop Betrand Bellenot volunteered to attempt to port
> > the ROOT native GUI to Windows. After some false starts he is now, since a
> > few months, on the right track and progressing at a good pace. The screenshots
> > at
> >
> > http://root.cern.ch/root/win32progress/Win32GUI.html
> >
> > give a good idea of the current status. The port uses the low level Win32
> > graphics API and does not make use of any X11 compatibily library and does
> > not require an X server. As you can see the look on Windows is exactly the
> > same as on Unix and MacOS X. Once this work is finished, the ROOT GUI classes
> > can be used as a truely cross-platform GUI framework.
> >
> > Cheers, Fons.
> >
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