pyROOT 6 and gVirtualX, EEventType, etc

ROOT
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ROOT Version (e.g. 6.12/02): 6.13.02
Platform, compiler (e.g. CentOS 7.3, gcc6.2): Fedora 27
Python 2.7.14

Hello,

I’d like to make my pyROOT app ROOT 6 ready for one day when it will have windows support and will be adopted by more tools. However, there are problems:

  1. ROOT.gVirtualX.GrabKey(self.GetId(), ROOT.gVirtualX.KeysymToKeycode(ROOT.kKey_j), ROOT.kKeyControlMask, True) and similar do not work. I get:
    RuntimeWarning: creating converter for unknown type “TTVirtualX**”
    What should be used instead?

  2. if ROOT.gPad.GetEvent() == ROOT.EEventType.kButton1Down:
    AttributeError: type object ‘int’ has no attribute ‘kButton1Down’
    I’ve tried perhaps 3 different enumerations in pyROOT 6, and all of them resolve to “int”. What should be used instead?

  3. I can’t go further with errors in my app before resolving those, so there may be many more similar errors awaiting. Is there any document about migration from ROOT 5 to ROOT 6?

  4. Calling TGWindow with ROOT.gClient.GetRoot() as an argument crashes the app - visible when one tries to execute gui_ex.py from tutorials. I found on this forum that it can be fixed with providing ROOT.TGClient.Instance().GetRoot() instead. What is the reason for keeping a broken version of gui_ex.py?

Thank you in advance for help!

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I think I’ve found solutions to 1 and 2 myself:

  1. Replace ROOT.gVirtualX with ROOT.TVirtualX.Instance(). So, perhaps ROOT.gVirtualX could be initialised to this by default?

  2. I understand that in ROOT 6 enums are directly put into ROOT.*, so I need to check ROOT.kButton1Down instead of ROOT.EEventType.kButton1Down. I guess this is intentionall, but if in addition the old “addressing” could be restored, it would increase the compatibility…

Questions 3 and 4 still hold :slight_smile:

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Hi @LeWhoo,

I am afraid there is no specific guide of how to migrate your PyROOT application from ROOT 5 to 6, but we will gladly answer your questions in this forum in case more issues arise.

Regarding the gui_ex.py tutorial, thank you for spotting that, we will fix it.

Enric

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Rather than

ROOT.TVirtualX.Instance();

consider

ROOT.gApplication.InitializeGraphics();

Cheers,
Phlippe.

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Perhaps noting small tips & tricks like the ones that I just found and puting them on some webpage could be considered?

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Hmm, I am not sure how should I use that. ROOT.TVirtualX.Instance() returns TVirtualX, on which I can call GrabKey() (that’s what I use it for). While ROOT.gApplication.InitializeGraphics() returns void…

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Thanks for the suggestion, we are actually creating a Howto integrated in the new forum so that we can more easily redirect users to previously answered questions that are common.

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If it will be well indexed by Google, then great!

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You (of course :slight_smile: ) needs to return to using ROOT.gVirtualX

Cheers,
Philippe.

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So the fact that ROOT.gVirtualX gives:
RuntimeWarning: creating converter for unknown type “TTVirtualX**”
is a bug or something expected?

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Yes, this seems like a bug PyROOT. @etejedor Can you take a look?

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A JIRA ticket has been opened to track the issue:

https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-9364

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Issue understood and addressed by:

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The PR has been merged, you should no longer see the issue if you work with the current master.

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Great!

So, just to confirm another thing. Is ROOT.kButton1Down in ROOT 6 instead of ROOT.EEventType.kButton1Down in ROOT 5 a planned change or a bug?

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From what I see in ROOT 6, in the C++ ROOT prompt, you can access directly kButton1Down, so Python is just replicating that behaviour.

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