so ... where could the pb comes from ?? I don't have any idea ; if my
objects cannot be set to a "zombie state" it could (would!) be "dangerous"
for my prog !
seb
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Rene Brun wrote:
> Hi Sebastien,
>
> As I said, I cannot reproduce your problem. see below:
>
> root [0] TClonesArray* array = new TClonesArray("class",10) ;
> Error in <TClonesArray::TClonesArray>: class is not a valid class name
> root [1] if(array->IsZombie()) cout << "is zombie" << endl ;
> is zombie
> root [2]
>
> Rene Brun
>
>
> Sebastien Greder wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rene,
> >
> > thanks for the reply, but indeed this small script doesn't work for me :
> >
> > {
> > TClonesArray* array = new TClonesArray("class",10) ;
> > if(array->IsZombie()) cout << "is zombie" << endl ;
> > }
> >
> > which obvroot [0] TClonesArray* array = new TClonesArray("class",10) ;
> Error in <TClonesArray::TClonesArray>: class is not a valid class name
> root [1] if(array->IsZombie()) cout << "is zombie" << endl ;
> is zombie
> root [2]iously gives an error message since class is not known but
> > doesn't return the expected "is zombie" statement.
> >
> > seb.
> >
> > ps : I'm running on redhat 7.2, gcc 2.96, version 3.05/02.
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Rene Brun wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Sebastien,
> > >
> > > I cannot reproduce your problem with the test on Zombie.
> > > Note that in your example, you had a typo, testing on aclone
> > > instead of aclonesarray.
> > >
> > > I have added the call to MakeZombie in the second TClonesArray
> > > constructor. Thanks for this remark.
> > >
> > > Rene Brun
> > >
> > > On Wed, 9 Apr
> > > 2003, Sebastien Greder wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'm facing a small problem concerning the TClonesArray constructor :
> > > >
> > > > I create a TClonesArray with the usual constructor :
> > > >
> > > > TClonesArray* aclone = new TClonesArray("aclassname",100) ;
> > > >
> > > > If the classname is not known by ROOT (i.e gROOT->GetClass("classname")
> > > > fails) one gets the message : "classname is not a valid clas name"
> > > > and MakeZombie() is called .
> > > >
> > > > Since I want to test if the TClonesArray has been successfuly built , that
> > > > means not only have a message but be able to stop my prog somehow I
> > > > decided to test the TClonesArray by : aclone->IsZombie() but this doesn't
> > > > work, so to sum up the code :
> > > >
> > > > TClonesArray* trackarray = 0 ;
> > > > TClonesArray* muonarray = 0;
> > > > ....
> > > >
> > > > trackarray = InitArrays(track_branch,trackarray,"Track") ;
> > > > muonarray = Init...
> > > >
> > > > TClonesArray* InitArrays(TBranchElement* abranch,
> > > > TClonesArray* aclonesarray,
> > > > TString aclassname)
> > > > {
> > > > if(abranch) {
> > > > aclonesarray = new TClonesArray(aclassname.Data(),100) ;
> > > > if(aclone->IsZombie()) return 0 ;
> > > > else {
> > > > tree->SetBranchAddress(abranch->GetName(),&aclonesarray);
> > > > return aclonesarray ;
> > > > }
> > > > }
> > > > else {
> > > > cout << "couldn't find branch" << endl ;
> > > > return 0 ;
> > > > }
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Am I doing something wrong ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for help,
> > > >
> > > > seb.
> > > >
> > > > ps : by the way the second constructor of TClonesArray :
> > > > TClonesArray(const TClass *cl,....)
> > > >
> > > > does not have the call MakeZombie() if cl is NULL, just a message error
> > > >
> > >
> > >
>
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