Hi H.-Gerd Rosarius, please look at $ROOTSYS/test directory which contains standalone progams using TG*** classes and which are cross platfrom ones (Windows/Unix) guiviewer (using signal-slots) guitest (using ProcessMessage) HTH. Regards. Valeriy > 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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