RE: [ROOT] Problems with windows version

From: Martijn Schellekens (Martijn.Schellekens@iota.u-psud.fr)
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 12:09:10 MEST


Hi Valeri,

Could we than not imagine either writing the file entirely to some buffer 
or even just make a temporary copy of it?
I will be looking at QtRoot this afternoon, yet I use the Root widget 
librairy extensively: is that supported?

Thanks to all,

Martijn

At 16:17 14/06/2004 -0400, Valeri Fine wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rooters,
> >
> > I forgot about just another annoying feature I encoutered with the
>windows
> > version. Once a script is loaded and at some point the execution
>failed,
> > root does not leave the script so it becomes impossible to access that
> > script for writing purpose anymore.
>
>
>It is not ROOT feature. It is a feature of Windows file system. If some
>file is OPEN somewhere it can NOT be re-open again to WRITE unless it is
>closed.
>
>I am afraid to do what you want ROOT will have to open and close the
>file after each line it reads in.
>
>Just my 2 cents :-(
>
>                        Valeri
>
> > This makes the user having to quit his
> > root session before he can correct his mistake. I did not have such
> > problems with the Linux versions.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Martijn
> >
> > >Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:44:10 +0200
> > >To: roottalk@cern.ch
> > >From: Martijn Schellekens <Martijn.Schellekens@iota.u-psud.fr>
> > >Subject: [ROOT] Problems with windows version
> > >
> > >Hi Rooters,
> > >
> > >I'm experiencing difficulties with the gSystem->SetBuildDir()
>function
> > >under windows 2000.
> > >Versions tried have been both 4.00/06a and 3.10/02. My files simply
>dont
> > >compile as root can not find its own created header files back.
> > >(command used was an absolute path:
>gSystem->SetBuildDir("c:/Root/Mlib") )
> > >
> > >In terms of other annoying features in the windows version: sometimes
> > >something goes wrong with the displaying of the compiler messages
>inside
> > >the terminal. Those become simply unreadable. Windows version is the
> > >french version of 2000.
> > >I have by that way a question for the windows users: are there any
>better
> > >windows terminal emulators than those provided by the base operating
>system?
> > >
> > >Last and also the least: Xinerama doesn't seem to be supported in the
>gdk
> > >librairy for windows (I only checked this for the windows version).
>Hence
> > >if I open a ComboBox on a second screen, it will open this combobox
>on my
> > >main screen. I dont really care about this but I just wanted to
>notify it.
> > >
> > >Thanks a lot anyway for the job done,
> > >
> > >Martijn Schellekens
> > >
> > >PS: Rene, I did get your reply to my question on recursive fits from
>your
> > >website. I filled in the request form with a wrong adress.
> > >I thank you very much.



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