Re: TNamed() without a name

Hi Thiemo,

  you could make some function like

char *randomName(const char *base=0)

and use that as argument the THn. To make is fancy with base you can say "pt-".

Cheers, Fons.

On 13/04/10 17:47, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> Dear rooters,
>
> when creating a series of histograms or profiles for display, it is
> sometimes cumbersome to come up with unique (!) names for all of them.
>
> I've been wondering for some time whether there is a trick to not having
> to specify a unique name upon instantiation of a class inheriting from
> TNamed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Would you accept a patch that implements auto-naming with unique names,
> a) if the specified name is empty or
> b) if a well-defined "magic" name is used?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Thiemo
>

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