Christian Holm Christensen writes: > All though it may seem like reinventing the wheel, and without knowing > a lot about it, I think ROOT would benefiet from being able to use > various graphics abstraction layers like GNOME and Qt, and I think > that was what Valery was suggesting and working on (but I may be > wrong). I have a couple points about this. First, one thing to add to your ASCII UML is a "TPostScript" low level GUI so as to allow scalable/printable output of the entire application. I (or more precisely, the users of my event display) actually would find this more useful than being able to plug in Qt or Gtk as low level GUI implementations. Second, I actually prefer the approach that QtROOT takes (replace high level GUI code instead of providing low level implementation). This approach lets you write Qt code directly. You don't need to go through the TG classes nor rely on Rt for sig/slot. You can benefit from a library which has had thousands of eyes on its design and implementation, which is thoroughly documented, and which is quite frankly much much more easy to work with than TG + Rt. I wait eagerly for QtROOT to be finished so I can look through it and steal all their hard work for GtkROOT! Regards, -Brett.
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