Making GUI with root

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Hi. I’m working on a root program to acess databases and read off the necessary data to make the desired graphs.

However, I need the program to be accessbile to non-root users. So basically I need to add an interface to it so that anyone can run the program with a user friendly interface to select parameters desired, the scale of the graph, variables, and so on.

Any ideas of where I could learn more on GUI building or find sample scripts? Has anyone used root in this manner?

Thanks,
Neil

P.S - I’m working for Antares in France, for anyone who wants to know.

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Hi Neil,

There is a chapter about the GUI classes available in the ROOT at ftp://root.cern.ch/root/doc/chapter24.pdf and two macros: guitest.C and mditest.C in $ROOTSYS/tutorials as examples of these classes.

In addition you can see the RootShower application in $ROOTSYS/test/RootShower

Cheers, Ilka