XINT001 The interactive version of GEANT

The interactive version is an essential tool for users who are in charge of the design of a detector. In addition to all the batch tools which are also available, the interactive user can call one by one and in any order all the basic functions of GEANT to:

• design or modify the geometry of the setup;
• exploit the drawing package in a more efficient way;
• change the running conditions on a event by event basis.

A set of encapsulated Postscript files have been collected in a new section XINT010. They illustrate the visualization possibilities of the interactive version of GEANT.

• Invoking the interactive version
• The Motif Interface
• The main ideas
• The Geant++ Executive Window
• An Example