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.
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> 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
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> H.-Gerd Rosarius
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