Hi Pierre-Luc,
I have removed the obsolete comment in TDirectory::Get.
You can use this function to return a pointer to a sub-directory.
Rene Brun
On Sat,
31 May
2003, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a class that holds a TDirectory pointer but that ignores if the
> directory structure of the TDirectory instance is entirely loaded in
> memory or not (the instance can be a TFile instance).
>
> In a member function of this class, I want to get a pointer to a
> subdirectory of the TDirectory instance. Suppose this
> subdirectory is
> called "MySubDir". I want to get a pointer to "MySubDir" and we
> don't know if "MySubDir" is in memory or not. I wanted to use
> TDirectory::Get(), but the ROOT reference guide says that we must not use
> TDirectory::Get() when the namecycle is a TDirectory namecycle.
>
> So what should I do? Should I cd() to "MySubDir" to load it in memory in
> the case it was not and use after FindObject("MySubDir") from the parent
> directory to get the pointer?
>
> I've noticed that FindObjectAny("MySubDir") loads "MySubDir" in memory and
> returns a pointer to the instance. However, I don't want to look for
> "MySubDir" in the subdirectories.
>
> Is there a nicer way to do what I want?
>
> Thank you
>
> Pierre-Luc Drouin
>
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