Re: copy selected entries of subset of chain

Hi Margar,

Then all the ingredients are there and it should work ... unless their ordering and calls are wrongly set (I would need more code to know).

Cheers,
Philippe.

On 4/12/11 8:02 AM, Margar Simonyan wrote:
> Hi Philippe
>
> sorry, that was a typo in the e-mail, I have
> chain->SetBranchStatus("*", 1) in the code, as well as LoadEntry,
> GetEntry etc.
>
> Margar
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Philippe Canal<pcanal_at_fnal.gov> wrote:
>> Hi Margar,
>>
>> (Besides the missing LoadEntry, GetEntry and SetBranchAddress which I assume
>> are in the routines
>> you did no show), it seems that the problem is the 2nd argument of the 2nd
>> SetBranchStatus,
>> I think it should read:
>>
>> chain->SetBranchStatus("*", 1);
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Philippe.
>>
>> On 4/12/11 2:43 AM, Margar Simonyan wrote:
>>> Hello ROOTTalk
>>>
>>> I would like to copy selected entries of some branches of TChain to
>>> another tree. So far my attempt work for single tree but not for a
>>> chain. Simplified logic looks like this:
>>>
>>> type var1;
>>> TBranch * b1=0;
>>> chain->SetBranchAddress("var1",&var1,&b)
>>>
>>> chain->SetBranchStatus("*", 0)
>>> chain->SetBranchStatus("var1", 1);
>>>
>>> f = TFile::Open("file.root", "UPDATE");
>>> newTree = chain->CloneTree(0);
>>>
>>> now have to enable all branches since they are needed for event selection
>>> chain->SetBranchStatus("*", 0);
>>> for(; ; )
>>> if(selection_function())
>>> newTree->Fill()
>>>
>>>
>>> The trees are connected and when a new file is opened in chain things
>>> go wrong. I tried reseting the branch addresses, but it didn't work.
>>> Is there any way to get it working?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Margar
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Dr Margar Simonyan, post-doctoral researcher
>>> Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
Received on Tue Apr 12 2011 - 15:06:53 CEST