Lopes-Eventbrowser is qt-based browser for the LOPES collaboration at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, designed to simplify data analysis of data obtained from both the LOPES antennas as well as the KASCADE-Grande stations. This program provides a QT-powered, easily extensible user interface for browsing data stored in ROOT files, using ROOT as the backend.
- Aug 23, 2008 - Experimental support for QT4 is added; QT3 support is thus dropped in the trunk and the QT3 branch is moved to branches/qt3-branch.`
This project is started as a 3-month-long DAAD RISE project with student Xinlu Huang and supervisor P. Gina Isar. The initial intent of the project is to provide a graphical interface to visualize the data coming from the LOPES experiment, similar to another browser display which was done also by a DAAD RISE project in summer 2007 for the KASCADE-Grande experiment.
As the development evolves, the project became more general in its input, namely, as of the end of the initial project in summer 2008, the eventbrowser is accepting any ROOT file containing ROOT tree of arbitrary data, and provides a graphical interface to analyze the data. As the program has a design goal to be flexible, it is also potentially useful for data coming from other sources - as long as it comes in the form of a ROOT file.
To run Lopes-Eventbrowser, you have 3 options:
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- Get a pre-compiled version QT3 only: a download link should be on the right side of this page under
“Featured”. Untar the package and follow directions in the included[README]file.
- Get a pre-compiled version QT3 only: a download link should be on the right side of this page under
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- Compile from source, QT3 version: check out the code using svn command and then follow directions in CompilingEventBrowser. The library dependencies are described [LibraryDependencyQT3 here].
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- Compile from source, bleeding-edge version (QT4): Warning: this is NOT a stable version! Check out the code using svn command and then follow directions in CompilingEventBrowser. The library dependencies are described [LibraryDependency here].
The compiled version relies on two external libraries: QT3 runtime libraries and ROOT 5.18 with QT support. The former should come with standard linux distributions, and the latter one can either obtain the suitable binaries from the ROOT website or compile ROOT 5.18 from source with suitable flags to enable QT support as described in the ROOT documentations.
For a quick glance on how the program works, see QuickStartGuide.
For a list of what the program can do, see ProgramFeatures.