This is the wiki for the luaXroot software. This is a work in progress and some sections are still missing.

For the installation, see the README.md.

The main lines of the documentation can be found below. For a more detailed index follow this link.

Overview

• Quick Start: using existing scripts

• The command interpreter

• Loading a script

• Displaying histograms and graphs

• Graphical cut

• Interacting with a running task

• Exiting the process

• The Lua scripting language

• Introduction

• Variables and types

• The Environment

• Tables

• Operators and Statements

• Reading Tables

• Functions

• Modules and Packages

• Functionalities

• The TApplication

• The userlogon.lua

• Helper Functions

• Lua "classes" implementation

• System calls binding

• Inter-process Communications

• The ROOT Binders

• Adding Custom Calsses

Built-in functions

• Helper functions

• Lua classes implementation

• More about the userdata type

• userdata as substitutes to C++ classes

• Editing existing Lua classes with AddPostInit

• Derived classes

• General functions

• System calls and basic functions

• Lua libraries
• luaXroot additions

• Inter-Process Communications

• Message Queues
• Semaphores
• Shared Memory Segments
• Memory Mapped Files
• Sockets

• ROOT libraries binding

• General binders

• TCanvas

• TFile

• TF1

• TGraphErrors

• TH1D

• TH2D

• TSpectrum

• TCutG

• TTree

Adding modules

• Regular functions

• Overriding functions

• Custom C++ Classes

• Lua modules examples