RE: Proposal for a new feature: import data wizard

I the other words you want for "SpreadSheet" -like (for example, eXcel) interface ?    

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                         Valeri Fine

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From: owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch [mailto:owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch] On Behalf Of Antonio Bulgheroni
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 4:35 AM
To: ROOT Talk
Subject: [ROOT] Proposal for a new feature: import data wizard  

Dear all,

    I would like to draw your attention to a new feature I'd like to have. In the everyday life, we often have experimental results in the form of an ASCII file with data in columns. To put these data into a ROOT tree is enough to write myTree->ReadFile(...) but this requires to remember by heart the data structure of the file. I think that having a graphical import data wizard, showing the data structure of the ASCII file and allowing the user to select the name and the type for each column would help a lot.

What do you think?

Thanks for helping,

Antonio

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