I recently wrote a GUI interface and thus far I have been defining and coding all of my own functions for drop down menus and such. However I was wondering if there was a way to use the functions from TPad such as SaveAs and Open, without recoding them myself. I was thinking that this could be done through inheritance but I am unsure of how to do it, as I am not nearly a C++ expert.
If this question has already been asked sorry for being redundant, but I was unable to find documentation on this. Also an example of code that does this would be very useful but not nessasary.
Thank you for your prompt reply, However, I was wondering if you could derive the entire menu bar, rather than just call certain functions. for example when you create a TCanvas it gives a TPad window with a canvas in it and on the top there is a menu bar with certain options and such built in. However when you call an embedded canvas for a gui interface you do not get this menu bar rather you have to define your own. This is a useful function and is one of the reasons that I switched to a custom GUI however my boss also wants the old functionality of the TCanvas window in the GUI I created and I was wondering if I could call the entire menu bar and add it to my windows or if I would have to recreate the entire thing.
Thanks it sounds like a very useful tool, does it come standard with root I believe I am currently running ROOT 3 version, is this a new feature in ROOT 4? or can it be downloaded seperatly. If it is in ROOT 3 how do I acess it?
Hi,
yes it’s new, currently under development.
First appeared in root.cern.ch/root/Version40102.news.html
So, it’s still buggy, nevertheless very usefull. For example,
it’s used for development GUI Builder itself