Re: [ROOT] reading from trees once more

From: Pasha Murat (630)840-8237@169G ((630)840-8237@169G)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 00:27:58 MET


hi Anne-Sylvie,

you seem to be using some nontrivial way of filling the ROOT ntuple,
such that you end up with branch names like "_1"... anyway, you could try 

	tv__tree->SetBranchAddress("_1.nhitcot",&nhitcot2);

						best, Pasha

Anne-Sylvie Nicollerat wrote:
> 
> Hello !
> 
> I am trying to read the variables from a tree (named Tracks), using the
> following macro (that I start after having started the tree viewer):
> 
> {
> tv__tree = (TTree *) gROOT->FindObject("Tracks");
> tv__tree_list->Add(tv__tree);
> 
> Int_t nhitcot2;
> Int_t nhitax2;
> Int_t nhitst2;
> 
> tv__tree->SetBranchAddress("nhitcot",&nhitcot2);
> tv__tree->SetBranchAddress("nhitax",&nhitax2);
> tv__tree->SetBranchAddress("nhitst",&nhitst2);
> ....
> }
> 
> Then root returns me the following error message :
> 
> Error in <TTree::SetBranchAddress>: unknown branch -> nhitcot
> Error in <TTree::SetBranchAddress>: unknown branch -> nhitax
> Error in <TTree::SetBranchAddress>: unknown branch -> nhitst
> 
> When I look in the contents of my tree, doing tv__tree->Print(), I get
> the following:
> 
> root [1] tv__tree->Print()
> ******************************************************************************
> 
> *Tree    :Tracks    :
> Tracks                                                 *
> *Entries :    48820 : Total =         3536541 bytes  File  Size =
> 3536541 *
> *        :          : Tree compression factor =
> 1.00                       *
> ******************************************************************************
> 
> *Br    0 :_1        :
> alg/I:charge/I:d0/F:eta/F:event/I:nhitax/I:nhitcot/I:  *
> *         |
> nhitsil/I:nhitsilphi/I:nhitsilst/I:nhitsilz/I:nhitst/I:pT/F:     *
> *         |
> paralg/I:phi0/F:run/I:trknum/I:z0/F                              *
> *Entries :    48820 : Total  Size=    3515490 bytes  File Size  =
> 3515490 *
> *Baskets :      110 : Basket Size=      32000 bytes  Compression=
> 1.00     *
> 
> I think the suspicious thing is the 0:_1 thing. It look as the variables
> are not directly accessible. Actually when I try to access the tree
> variables from the browser, I first come to a _1 leave that I have to
> open to access the tree variables.
> 
> Just another thing: I can for instance plot an histogram directly from
> the viewer and then root executes the following command :
> tv__tree->Draw("_1.nhitcot","","hist", 48820, 0);
> 
> Do you know how I could acces the arguments of the tree in my macro ?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Anne-Sylvie
> 
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