Re: ROOT Enhancement Request

From: Valery Fine (fine@mail.cern.ch)
Date: Sat Nov 01 1997 - 21:08:01 MET


On  1 Nov 97 at 0:45, Marcel Kunze wrote:

> ** Electronic Enhancement Request Form **
> 
> Name:           Marcel Kunze
> E-mail address: marcel@ep1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
> 
> Enhancement urgency: minor
> 
> ENHANCEMENT DESCRIPTION:
> I thought it would be a really great thing
> to have a ROOT-plugin for netscape. Just imagine:
> You can put a .C file into your WWW-pages and another
> person can click on the link and gets nice interactive
> plots automagically.
> 
> Is it already foreseen to have a ROOT-plugin ?
> 

   Dear Narsel Kunze,

   This idea is very nice and has been discussing many times.

   But it seems you can do this yourself just now and quite easy. 
Just adjust you Netscape for  the ".CC" extension to instruct it to 
run local ROOT via the command line like

           ROOT <clicked-file-name>.cc

  For example with "Netscape 4.0" for Windows just go to 

   1.  Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications
   2.  New->
           Description of  -  "ROOT macro files"
           File            -  "cc"  (cxx,c,cpp used to be occupied by 
                                     MSVC compiler)
           MIME type
           Application to   -   %rootsys%\bin\root "%1"

  The same thing can be done via Microsoft Internet Explorer even 
more easy. MS IE allows the user to define several applications for 
one and the same file extension.  And it works very nice (at least 
under my Windows NT)

  Adjust you browser and then try:

             http://nicewww.cern.ch/~fine/www/surfaces.CC
             http://nicewww.cern.ch/~fine/www/LHCBGeometry.CC
             http://nicewww.cern.ch/~fine/www/STARGeometry.CC

  (Note: The last two macros use OpenGL DLL. It is always loaded 
for Windows NT and needs no special user's action. Your computer 
should be quite fast to play those macros, but you may try ANY our 
macros from the ROOT/tutorial section yourself)

                                                   Valery
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