Put a name on TChain ?

From: Laurent Aphecetche (aphecetche@ganil.fr)
Date: Wed Apr 22 1998 - 16:22:12 MEST 

Hi,

Why chains do not have their own name ? It is thus impossible to access
them via
gROOT->FindObject().

Here's my problem. I would like to have a macro that create a chain, and
then
at the prompt line I would like to play with this chain :

void macro(Int_t i1, Int_t i2) {
...
  TChain* chain = new TChain("thetreename");
  for (i=i1;i<=i2;i++) chain->Add(filename[i]) ;
}

root[1] .x macro.C(702,781)
root[2] TChain* p=(TChain*)gROOT->FindObject("thetreename");
root[3] ...play with p...

It seems to me that of course in line 2, it's the tree object that will
be found. Why
not a chain constructor like TChain::TChain(char* chainname, char*
treename) ?

Thanks.
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