I'm having some trouble - I don't understand how ResetBranchAddress and ResetAdress work. Basically, I'd like to use TTree::SetBranchAddress to hook up a variable. Some way through the tree I don't need that variable any longer - so I'd like to "unhook" it from the tree. I'd hoped to be able to use ResetAddress on the branch I'd done the set address on. However, that has no effect. TTree::SetBranchAddresses, on the other hand works as I would have expected (but is no good in my final solution as I've got other things in the Tree that I don't want reset!).
I've uploaded a small stand-alone program, but the relavent code is here:
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/// Create the chain that we will be reading in
auto c = new TChain("ntup");
c->AddFile("n1.root");
c->AddFile("n2.root");
TBranch *b;
c->SetBranchAddress("val", &gValue, &b);
int ent = c->GetEntries();
cout << "Total Entries " << ent << endl;
/// Run through most of the index
int index = 0;
for (index = 0; index < ent - 50; index++) {
c->GetEntry(index);
}
/// Now, reset the address and then re-go
// b->ResetAddress(); - doesn't seem to do anything
//c->ResetBranchAddress(b); // This doesn't either
c->ResetBranchAddresses(); // THis actuall works!!
for (index = 0; index < ent - 50; index++) {
c->GetEntry(index);
cout << gValue << endl;
}
At the end are teh three Reset method calls. I would have expected the result to the same no matter what I did - that gValue should have stopped incrementing b/c the tree is no longer filling it.
So... how can I modify the above sample so that only the "val" branch is "unhooked"?
Many thanks!
