Re: [ROOT] Feature Requests for TBits

From: Birger Koblitz (koblitz@mail.desy.de)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 16:21:35 MET


Hi Rene,

yes, this is what we would like to have. Sorry for my poor description.
Just two additional clarifications:
- The operator [] should also work in selections:
  mytree.Draw("somethingElse","myEventBits[10]");

- Not only calling mytree.Draw("myEventBits"); should produce this
  histogram, but also clicking on the variable in the TBrowser.

Cheers,
  Birger


On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Rene Brun wrote:

> Hi Birger,
>
> Let see if I understand correctly your request.
>
>  - you are requesting an operator [] to get the ith bit in a TBits
>    instead of calling the function TestBitNumber().
>    That is quite easy to implement. I propose in this case
>    a read only operator [].
>
>  - you want to do mytree.Draw("myEventBits");
>    This will automatically loop on all your events and filling
>    an hitogram with as many channels as there are bits in TBits
>    and where the bin count is incremented by 1 or the specified weight
>    for each event where the corresponding bit is set.
>    This requires a bit more work, but I agree would be a nice addition.
>
> Rene
>
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Birger Koblitz wrote:
>
> > Hi Rene,
> >
> > I think Ursula Berthon already talked to you about this at the
> > Root-Meeting:
> >
> > Within H1 we would like to be able to put bit-arrays into our HAT tree
> > which should be accessible using only a browser and which is used for
> > event selection. Currently TBits allows to use the member function
> > TestBitNumber() which is quite inconvenient if it comes to a selection of
> > a large number of status bits e.g. to check if the quality of an event is
> > good. This could easily go over the maximum selection length of a tree.
> > Therefore it would be nice if one could simply use bits[i] to check the
> > ith bit in TBits bits. In addition it would be nice if one could view a
> > bit-array in a TBrowser. It should show a histogram over the bits and the
> > number of entries per bit. Currently fAllBits shows the entries (in 2^i
> > form) for the lowest byte. I think this is not really useful.
> >
> > In the moment we are using byte-arrays which at least allow to use the []
> > operator and allow us to inspect one bit with the TBrowser. H1 would be
> > very intersted to move to TBits because currently the bit-arrays make up
> > most of our HAT ntuple, we would be even willing to move to a newer
> > root-version ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Birger
> >
> >  ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Birger Koblitz                          koblitz@mail.desy.de
> >  MPI für Physik
> >  c/o DESY-FH1                           Tel: +49 40 8998-2431
> >  Notkestr. 85                           Fax: +49 40 8998-3094
> >  D-22603  HAMBURG
> >
>
>

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 Birger Koblitz                          koblitz@mail.desy.de
 MPI für Physik
 c/o DESY-FH1                           Tel: +49 40 8998-2431
 Notkestr. 85                           Fax: +49 40 8998-3094
 D-22603  HAMBURG



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