Rene Brun
richard m schectman wrote:
>
> we have developed a series of utility routines to display and analyze
> atomic spectroscopy and lifetime data from our Low Energy Heavy Ion
> Accelerator... the macros work fine when called from the CINT command
> line via the .x command... they do NOT work fine when the .x command is
> assigned to a Control Bar Button and input from the keyboard is
> requested by the macro... input from a scanf command in the macro gets
> garbled in a fashion which is different in WinNT from what it is in
> Win95: in NT, the first character input gets stripped off and goes into
> a buffer, where CINT finds it after the macro has finished; in Win95,
> characters are intermittently and irreproducibly echoed to the keyboard-
> with the extraneous characters going into a buffer, where they appear
> after the macro has executed
>
> it would make the users' lives much simpler if the macros could be
> invoked from buttons rather than from the command line, and any
> suggestions you have would be most welcome... many thanks
> RM Schectman
> Professor of Physics
> University of Toledo