Hello Rooters, after a lot of roottalk reading and unsuccessful coding I am quite confused as well as frustrated about ROOT's ability to create GUI applications for windows. My mission is simple: Creating a standalone GUI application that has no other functionality than to display ROOT histograms and is portable between Windows and Linux. (while Linux isn't the problem) The histograms are serialized in a root-file. First I tried to build such an application for MS Windows 2000 with the ROOT TG*-Classes. To cut a long story short: I didn't manage to do it, because the application always crashed when I used a simple self-written class that was derived from TGMainFrame, included the RQ_OBJECT- and ClassDef-Makro. It goes without saying that I made a dictionary, too. However, another attempt was to build a QT-Application that used the TQtWidget-class out of the "ROOT Qt-Edition" from BNL. (See http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk03/3194.html and http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk03/3197.html) Valeri wrote back that this won't work. (See http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk03/3203.html) Just a few minutes ago I read this posting from 1999. (http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk99/0491.html) Fons wrote on a similar task that "this should be not much of a problem". But on a first glance the posting seems heavily Linux related, but I'll try it in this way next. But please, could you clear my picture about the status of Windows GUI and the different GUI related ROOT "distributions" (Qt-Edition, win32gdk, etc.)?? Greetings H.-Gerd Rosarius
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