The situation with GUIs under Windows is quite confusing (to say the least). We
are trying since many months to provide the same GUI that is running nicely
under Unix.
- Bertrand Bellenot has provided Win32GDK, a full implementation of the
ROOT GUI under Windows using a subset of the public domain graphics
system GDK. This works, BUT, as stated in the download page, there are
two main limitations with this version:
- it is slow
- you cannot use the command mode (only execute scripts). This version
is convenient if you want to build, eg, an event display fully GUI
driven. To use it, do
root myscript.C
- Valery Fine is working on a ROOt/Qt interface. This version is
currently NOT a complete implementation of the ROOT GUI with Qt. Only the
graphics in the canvas is interfaced with Qt. You cannot use any of the nice
TG classes in this mode. In particular, TRootBrowser and TTreeViewer
are not working with his version. We strongly hope that Valery will have
the opportunity to make a complete implementation of the abstract interface
TVirtualX with Qt. Also note that this version requires to buy the
commercial product Qt version 3 under Windows.
- It is our intention to provide a complete implementation of the ROOT
GUI under Windows using public domain tools only. We have recently made
very promising tests with a public domain package called FOX. We hope
to release a version based on this system in the coming months.
Rene Brun
Dgsmoot@aol.com wrote:
>
> Dear Persons,
>
> In reference to
>
> Windows/NT/95/98 with VC++ 6.0, version 3.02/07 (good old tar file)
> **WIN32GDK** (10.6 MB).
> This version is compiled and linked with the GDK driver implemented by
> Bertrand Bellenot. This is still an experimental version:
> Advantages: Same GUI and look&feel as on Unix
> Disadvantages: cannot use MSDOS shell: slower
> We expect to introduce this version as the default option in the next
> release.
>
> I apologize, I am a novice at Programming. I have looked around for a couple
> of days and cannot figure it out. What is GDK? Does Root run in it? Do you
> have to buy GDK? I only want to run the compiled binary...I only want a Root
> prompt. The older version runs well under DOS, but the GUI is somewhat
> primitive. This version will not run under DOS. How do you run it? Thank you
> in advance for your time and consideration.
>
> Dennis Smoot
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