[Amelia-development] Some AMELIA Updates

[Karol K. <kk...@gm...>]

Hi Joao,

I believe that you are busy with Episode 3, so I'll try to keep this
email short. It just contains updates on some things that I've been
working on and have not committed yet.

1) I've reworked (just slightly ;) ) the QIrrWidget again and we no
longer have the problem with OpenGL and the main menu on Linux.
Another advantage is that there is a "working" MacOSX port of AMELIA.
By working I mean that my cube example works, but MacOSX locks up most
of the time when I start AMELIA (although I had few successful runs.).
I should be able to commit the basic code soon (just need to clean it
up).

2) We've had an undergraduate physics party, where we showed some
demos, including AMELIA. I wrote a short documentation outlining some
basic features of AMELIA. You might be interested in temporary using
it as the "Getting Started Guide". It is here:
http://hep.phys.sfu.ca/~kka34/amelia-doc/amelia.html

3) For the above party, I had to make a few modifications and you
might be interested in having some of them in the official version.
Let me know if I should commit any of them. Here they are:
- I've added a fourth tab to the tabbar that says "Hints". It
basically listed signatures of common events as a quick reference. I
think something like this (but more general) would be quite useful.
- AXMLEvent now reads the "run number" and "event number" info from
the JiveXML files and displays them in the "Event Info" graphics view
thing.
- Since we had a touch screen, I've added zoom in and zoom out buttons
to control the sphere camera. Same thing for enabling selection of
multiple tracks. You can see these buttons in the screenshots used in
the documentation mentioned above.

4) I'm going to start to play around with displaying the track hits
and LAr calorimeters in the way we talked about while I was at
Berkeley. So if you have any hints (ei: place to find good
documentation on the JiveXML format?)  or you think I should wait
until you are less busy, just let me know.

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Cheers,
Karol Krizka