Hi Rene! On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Rene Brun wrote: > When you use the non-split mode, GetEvent will automatically > -delete the object (event) at the address specified in SetBranchAddress > - create a new instance via the default constructor > - fill the event via Streamer. > > In split-mode, the original event object is kept (no need to delete it > and rebuilt it). Only sub-objects need to be rebuilt. That would be what I wanted but how to do... > I strongly encourage you to use the automatic split method. > It has only advantages. This, however, implies some thinking > on the top level event model to take advantage of the possibility > to read only subsets of one event. ..since the automatic splitting does not work (AFAIK) on objects containing pointers to simple types. I have a raw data object containing variable length byte arrays. I wanted to allocate the maximum space before and then only copy every event into that space. (I didn't want to use TArray -- seems sorta overkill) Cheers Robert
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