Process events while waiting for command line input

ROOT
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Dear all,

I would like to be able to process events (e.g. zoom in a canvas) while waiting for a user input on the command line. This has always worked for me under Linux using an asynchronous TTimer to run gSystem->ProcessEvents() as shown in the following example:

[code]void EventTester()
{
TF1 * func = new TF1(“func”,“sin(x)”,-10,10);
func->Draw();
gPad->Update();

TTimer* timer = new TTimer("gSystem->ProcessEvents();", 50, kFALSE);
timer->TurnOn();
timer->Reset();

TString s;
cin >> s;

timer->TurnOff();
delete timer;
delete func;

}[/code]

However, in Windows 7 this seems to fail. I cannot do anything until the user input is finished. Is this known? Is there another way to achieve this functionality in Windows?

ROOT version is 5.32/00.

Thanks and best regards,

Sven

2

Hi Sven,

I’m afraid there is no simple solution to this issue. But you could use something like described in this thread

Cheers, Bertrand.