more TMapFile questions

Peter Steinberg (steinber@nevis1.nevis.columbia.edu)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 15:52:25 -0400 (EDT)

It seems that TMapFile doesn't know what to do with objects that
are not derived from TNamed. Although it will put them in the map
file, it names them with the same name as the class itself. This
prevents one from putting two instances of the same un-TNamed class
in the same shared section.

Deriving my objects from TNamed solves this problem, but is this how
naming shared objects is supposed to work? If so, what is the purpose
of the char* argument in TMapFile::Add(TObject*, char*)?

- Peter

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