I've updated configure to mention CASTOR as being the source for libshift. However for backward compatability the --with flags have not been changed. Cheers, Fons. Rene Brun wrote: > Hi Christian, > > Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > >>Hi Again, >> >>On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:18 +0100, Rene Brun wrote: >> >>>Christian, >>> >>>I cannot comment on Castor. The installation procedure works OK on Unix systems >>>and Windows. This is OK. >> >>I think I didn't make myself clear: Where do I get the source code for >>the SHIFT libraries ROOT requires? Is is at >> >> http://savannah.cern.ch/projects/castor/ >> >>If so, shouldn't the options really be changed to `--with-castor-libdir' >>etc.? > > > OK, the castor site has changed to a completly new site last week! > The page you are quoting seems to be the right page for downloading Castor. > I have updated the link on our installation page. I assume that the pointer > to your link is obsolete too. > I agree that the configure file should now refer to castor and not rfio. > (Fons, i assume that you will make the change) > > >>>Concerning TViewerOIV: it is our intention to discontinue the support >>>for this viewer. Our effort is going to TViewerOpenGL. This class provides far >>>more functionality than the old OI viewer. >> >>OK. Why not remove the code from CVS, as it's not functional at all? >> > > > Yes, as I said, we will remove it at the time of the release. > We are leaving time to react to some previous users who had built theit viewers > based on the OI viewer. > > >>The new OpenGL viewer is indeed very nice. A few questions: >> >> * However, I really miss the possibility of saving the current >> scene to a file (.eps, .gif, .jpg, .svg, or what not) - but I >> guess I'm not the first to raise that point :-) And I'm sure >> you're dealing with it. > > > We want to provide the same functionality as we do now with the normal TPad. > We are also considering a TPadGL class that could be embedded in a normal > canvas. > > >> * Would it be possible to hide the light sources too? Ofcourse, >> one can simply turn them off, but that removes the light too. > > > There are still many things to do with the lights. We are currently designing > important extensions to the GL viewer to load dynamically the GL scene > whenever a mouse event is triggered and also giving the possibility to the user > to move around the scene (as opposed to the user rotating the scene). > The lights are somehow connected to this problem. > > >> * In the attached script (a simplified version of the the ALICE >> FMD3 geometry), the XTRU objects are not drawn right when you >> look from the nose of the support cone, while they look find >> when viewed from the back of the cone. When I turn on wireframe >> display in the OpenGL viewer, I see that the XTRU objects >> contain more lines than I've defined. It seems that one of the >> triangles that make up the XTRU object is `dominating'. > > > OK, we take note of this problem and will try to fix it before our coming > development release. > > >>The new Ged classes are very nice too. A few questions: >> >> * I miss the buttons `Ok', `Apply', and `Cancel' (and possibly in >> `Close') in the pop-ups. >> * Also, sometimes, the pop-ups do not have a title bar and some >> times they do. >> * When enabling the editor, the canvas may be too small to hold >> the full interface, in which case, one has to turn off the >> auto-resize option and manually make the canvas larger. It >> would be nice if there was a scrollbar instead. > > > Ilka is currently working on these problems. > > Rene Brun > > >>[I should probably say that I'm using GNOME 2.8 with metacity] >> >>Yours, >> >>-- >> ___ | Christian Holm Christensen >> |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- >> | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 >> _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 >> _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 404 >> ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm >> | | >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Name: simpleGeometry.C >> simpleGeometry.C Type: text/x-c++src >> Encoding: 7bit -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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