Hi Alexander, I have implemented your suggestions in the coming version 2.00/13 Rene Brun Alexander Zvyagin wrote: > > IHEP, Protvino, Russia, 25-OCT-1998 > > Dear ROOTers and ROOT developers! > > It seems that TMinuit help system is difficalt in usage. (I faild to get help > about MIGRAD Minuit command via function TMinuit::mnhelp). Some very simple > requests are wrong: > gMinuit->mnhelp(); > gMinuit->mnhelp(""); > gMinuit->mnhelp("?"); > gMinuit->mnhelp("help"); > gMinuit->mnhelp("HELP"); > gMinuit->mnhelp("MIGRAD"); > ..... > > Below I propose some improvements in mnhelp function (I think so...). Current > code is marked > "OLD:" at the beginning of line. > > 1. > class TMinuit : public TNamed { > ... > OLD: void mnhelp(TString comd); > NEW: > void mnhelp(TString comd=""); // Set default value > > 2. > void TMinuit::mnhelp(TString comd) > { > ..... > //*-*....................................................................... > //*-* > //*-* Global HELP: Summary of all commands > //*-* ==================================== > //*-* > OLD: if (comd == '*') > NEW: > comd.ToUpper(); // convert all symbols to uppercase > > if( comd=='*' || comd=='?' || comd=="" || comd=="HELP" ) > { > Printf(.....); > ... > Printf(.....); > } > > if( !strncmp(comd.Data(),"CLE",3) ) { > .... > } > > if( !strncmp(comd.Data(),"MINI",4) ) { > ... > } > > And so on for all commands (comparision only first several symbols). > The implemination is simple and greatly improve help system of TMinuit. > > May be it will be better to introduce function > > TString::CompareNTo(char* cs, int N, TString::ECaseCompare cmp = kExact) > > for comparing only first N symbols. > > With best wishes, > Alexander.
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