Current projects on GUI

• The Overloaded Mouse
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  As mentioned in the introduction the next project should be to overload the ExecuteEvent function of TNode (which handles interrupts from mouse motion and clicks) in an inherited class TPhNode, to experiment with options for PHOBOS-useful information about clicked-on detectors.  The options will include a call to an appropriate user-written macro with the detector name passed as an argument; this macro could bring up information internal to the ROOT data analysis and/or external web information.  There is a very useful discussion of such overloading in ROOTTALK in a reply from V. Fine to Reiner Rohlfs on August 20.
   
• Lists of Nodes
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  Of course all this will have to be integrated with PHAT.   The macro phcset.C is a primitive example of  the kind of  node name selection that could be used to build the  subdetector, layer, plane and sensor organization of PHAT.  Perhaps this might best be done with external lists of names rather than attempting to decode the usually but not always consistent naming scheme.  Somewhere in the PHAT class structure I want to see the PHOBOS object access by mouse overloading mentioned above.
   
• More Buttoning
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  Experiments with the examples of  "presenters" appearing frequently in ROOTTALK are worthwhile.  These will, I hope, lead to further extensions of this "toy model" to include examples of plot access.
   
• TWebFile
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  In   Ideas  there is a discussion of integration of ROOT and the web.  Experiments with this new class (requiring use of an APACHE web server) will be interesting.
   

Please comment on these current interests.  Am I wasting my time?  Are there more worthwhile projects, or suggestions for different directions?