Re: [ROOT] TChain::AddFriend

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 18:43:37 MEST


Hi Henrique,

Something seems to be broken with TChains and friends.
I am currently busy preparing my trip to FermiLab next week.
I will investigate as soon as I can. I will keep you informed.

Rene Brun

Henrike Wissing wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using root version 3.02/07 and have some problems with the
> TChain::AddFriend method.
> In absolute accordance with the example in the users guide i do:
> 
>  TChain nu("h100");
>  nu.Add("file1.root");              // file1 contains one tree named h100
> 
>  TChain nufriend("tfriend");
>  nufriend.Add("friendfile.root");   // friendfile contains one tree named
>                                     // tfriend
> 
>  nu.AddFriend("tfriend");           //then gives the message:
> 
>        Warning in <TChain::AddFriend>: Unknown TChain tfriend
> 
> and trying to access any variable contained in the friedfile
> [eg by nu.Draw("any_friend_variable")] results in:
> 
>        *** Break *** segmentation violation
> 
> The individual trees are OK. [I can access them by h100/tfriend.Draw(...)]
> 
> Could anybody tell me what goes wrong ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Henrike



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