Hi Pascal,
currently the gif output of TCanvas and TImage classes are only
supported under X11. You could make save the canvas as SVG or EPS format
on windows and then convert that to png.
Cheers, Fons.
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:51, Pascal Burgard wrote:
> Dear ROOT
>
> My version of ROOT is 3.04/02
> The machine I am working on is a laptop SIEMENS, Pentium(r) Processor, 64Mo
> RAM under Windows Me.
>
> I am programming under WINDOWS VISUAL C++.
>
> I am doing SEVERAL fits of gaussian curves in the SAME canvas.
> I wish to save each of these fits into .png, .gif or any other image format
> that can easily be read by usual applications.
>
> One of your pages in the tutorials explains how to do it :
> http://root.cern.ch/root/html/examples/pad2png.C.html
>
> However if I follow these instructions, I get no error message while
> compiling or linking, but when I execute the program I get the message :
>
> Error in <TWinNTSystem::DynamicPathName>: AsImage does not exist in
> .;d:\root\bin;c:\windows;c:\window\command;d:\root\bin
> or has wrong file extension (.dll)
>
> Then I heard TImage came from a software called "AfterStep" under Linux and
> the same thing did not exist under Windows. Is that true?
>
> I therefore tried four other things :
>
> 1/
> ((TGWin32*)gVirtualX)->WriteGIF("test.gif");
>
> 2/
> Int_t canvasid = canvas->GetCanvasID();
> gVirtualX->SelectWindow(canvasid);
> gVirtualX->WriteGIF("test.gif");
>
> 3/
> canvas->SaveAs("test.gif");
>
> 4/
> canvas->Print("test.gif");
>
> But for each of them :
> *No message when compiling
> *No message when linking
> *The program executed as usually
> *However NO .gif file was created
>
> Can you please help me?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
>
> Pascal
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