Hi Christian, after a discussion this afternoon, we have re-prioritized the 32k limit issue and we hope very much to have it fixed for the existing widgets for the Xmas release. TGListView is already for some time, 32k limit free. We will do the same for TGListTree and TGListBox. Valeriy Onuchin will work on it. Concerning a powerful matrix widget, this is on our todo list for next year and will be, of course, limit free from the beginning. Cheers, Fons. On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 19:13, cstrato wrote: > Dear Rene > > I am sorry, but I cannot resist to make a comment, too: > When I was searching for a framework for my own project in 1999, > I was considering KDE/QT before I discovered ROOT which fitted > my intentions perfectly and which in general I consider to > be the best C++ framework for many reasons. > > I was also very delighted to see that ROOT offers its own > architecture-independent GUI classes. Only after already > extensive use of the TGClasses I realized that these classes > suffer from the 32k limit which e.g. prevents the creation of > large tables. This is really sad but I understand that the > GUI development has a lower priority within ROOT development. > > I am still reluctant to switch to QT for many reasons, one > reason being that I prefer to work with only one framework, > and I hope that this limitation will be eliminated soon. > Since ROOT was created to deal with very large data sets > it would be great if there would also be a possibility to > display/select large amounts of data within the GUI. > > Is there a timeframe within which the 32k problem will be > eliminated? > > Best regards > Christian > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n. .S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a > V.i.e.n.n.a. .A.u.s.t.r.i.a > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > > > Rene Brun wrote: > > Hi Jacek, > > > > I will wait for your new web page. > > > > Concerning Qt, you are a wise man, we will be wise people too ::) > > > > I will send the problem to Trolltech. > > > > Rene Brun > > > > On Sat, 20 > > Nov 2004, Jacek M. Holeczek > > wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >> > >>>I assume that you would like to see these files visible somewhere > >>>from our VMC pages? > >> > >>We've already talked about modifying the "howto" with Ivana ... > >>I proposed (she agreed) ... that we wait one or two month to gain some > >>more experience with it, before we really "advice" people to follow it. > >>In the meantime, people who need it NOW can use my roottalk mail(s) to get > >>it running NOW. > >>We also strongly hope that our G4 modifications will go to the G4 > >>mainstream development. There should be a new G4 release in a couple of > >>weeks. Once we also know whether they took it or not, we can also advice > >>people how to proceed with the "newest" G4 (7.0) ... > >>(Basically, I volunteered to modify the "howto" then :-) > >> > >>What concerns Qt "emit" ... it is clearly a Qt problem. I doubt, however, > >>that they will care ... especially for Qt releases that are already on the > >>market ... > >>You said it yourself ... it takes some minutes to install ROOT, but it > >>takes some hours to install Qt ... > >>I still think there is an easy way to "protect" root against this problem. > >>And it costs nothing ... > >>(Note here : I'm not a Qt fan ... I just occasionally need to use it. > >>I will NOT then try to get in touch with trolltech to inform them that > >>there is a problem. I think, someone who likes Qt and works with it daily > >>should do this ...) > >> > >>Best regards, > >>Jacek. > >> > > > > > > > > -- 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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