Re: Proposal for a new feature: import data wizard

Hi Antonio,

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:35 +0200, Antonio Bulgheroni wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps something like the attached? It's not that fancy - it doesn't show a "preview" of the file or anything, but it will deduce the number of columns, whether there's a branch descriptor in the beginning or not. The actual reading is done by TTree::ReadFile.

Run as

	Root> .L ImportGui.C+ 
	Root> test1()
	Root> test2()

Check the code for more information.

Yours,

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