Speaker
Timur Pocheptsov
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
Description
Mac OS X traditionally provides a very rich set of APIs and frameworks,
particularly in area of 2D/3D graphics. Until recently, ROOT did not have
access to these native graphics libraries on Mac OS X.
During 2012 a new graphical back-end was developed for ROOT, as an
alternative choice, to the more than 15 year-old X11 based version. It's a
complete implementation of ROOT's GUI, 2D and 3D graphics, based on Apple's
native APIs/frameworks, written in a mixture of C++ and Apple's
beloved Objective-C.
I will describe the new ROOT modules (macosx, quartz, cocoa), and the
motivation and benefits of having a native GUI/graphics implementation,
problems and solutions.
Author
Timur Pocheptsov
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
