Re: Error in <TKey::ReadObj>: Unknown class TTree

From: Valeri Fine (Faine) (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 18:51:12 MET


> Hi Valery and Rene,
> I made the following modification to file MainEvent.cxx: I only removed the
> statements in the write case from the MainEvent.cxx file, everything between
> line 166 and line 225. As I had mentioned, I wanted to separate reading and
> writing trees into separate routines.
> I understand that the problem has to do with the dictionary and the shared
> libraries. I used Renes advice and include gSystem->Load("Root_Tree"); in my
> main routine. That solved my problem.
> As a response to Valery: My code had a reference to TTree (TTree *T;), but
> that did not seem to be enough to include the DLL.

  I've reproduced your problem, but had no chance yet to check how it looks 
  like under UNIX ,and I have no clue how it could be done.

> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Reinhard
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valeri Fine (Faine) [mailto:fine@bnl.gov]
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: Reinhard Schwienhorst
> Cc: Roottalk
> Subject: Re: Error in <TKey::ReadObj>: Unknown class TTree
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi Reinhard,
> > I do not know what you did in MainEvent.cxx.
> > If you remove all the references to TTree or classes in the libTree
> > library,
> 
>  I wonder one he can not do this. If one removes references how can he use
>  it from the compiled code ?
> 
> > TTree method
> > you must load explicitely the library at the library at the start of the
> > main program with gSystem->Load("libTree"). On NT, it is not sufficient
> > to specify the library in the list of libs when you link the program.
> 
>  If code has any reference to TTree it will be linked with Root_Tree.lib
> against of Root_tree.DLL with no extra effort.
>  If code has no refs to TTree it can not use TTree anyway on either
> platform.
> 
>  So it is a dictionary problem not the dynamic library. By some reason CINT
> Dictionary
>  reports it doesn't know "TTree" ?
>   Was there any change in the way the dictionaty is created  recently ?
> 
>   Valery
> 
> >
> > Rene Brun
> >
> >
> > Reinhard Schwienhorst wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I have run into a problem when reading trees from a file with a program
> > > rather than in a macro. I am using the event example from the test area
> and
> > > I have created the event.root file. I modified MainEvent.cxx and removed
> > > everything in the write case ( the "else {" part of "if read == 1)").
> > > I get the following output:
> > > bash.exe-2.02$ Event 100 0 0 20
> > > TFile**         Event.root
> > >  TFile*         Event.root
> > >   KEY: TH1F     htime;1 Real-Time to write versus time
> > >   KEY: TTree    T;1     An example of a ROOT tree
> > >   KEY: TH1F     hstat;1 Event Histogram
> > > Error in <TKey::ReadObj>: Unknown class TTree
> > >
> > > What is going on? How can TKey not know about TTrees?
> > > Reading the tree works fine with the unmodified MainEvent.cxx routine.
> That
> > > is puzzling, because I only removed parts that don't get called.
> > >
> > > I am running on Windows NT with ROOT 2.23/11.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help,
> > >
> > > Reinhard
> >
> 
> 



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