A New Online Framework with multi-threaded ROOT
At the ROOT workshop at FermiLab we requested a multi-threaded version of ROOT, well, actually, we did that longer before...
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:15:08 -0500 (EST) Martin Purschke wrote:
as you know, we -- that is Phenix for me now :-) --
are evaluating root's capabilities for our online monitoring.
In this case you want to have the prompt (or some other
user interface) active all the time, while the event loop
or other process is running in the background. So without
stopping that, you want to bring up different histograms on
your canvas, or make fits, or whatever. I looked through the manuals
and tried all the GUI examples, but they are single-threaded, that is,
inactive until the currently executing macro or function terminates.
Are there any multi-threaded capabilities in root, or is this just not