Re: disabling TNamed characteristics of TNamed inherited objects
Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 08:36:58 +0200
William J Deninger wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there a method which one can use TNamed inherited objects (such as
> TH1F) without assigning a name or title such that it doesn't appear in
> any TFile::ls() or TDirectory::ls() lists and isn't serialized out
> with TFile::Write()?
>
> I've created a calorimeter pulse shape class called TWfdPulse which
> inherits TH1F. A TCalo class is responsible for filling the TWfdPulse
> class "calo pulse". However, the TCalo class must use several
> TWfdPulse objects as member variables to find the "calo pulse". How
> does one keep the TCalo TWfdPulse data members from appearing in the
> TFile when all is serialized out with TFile::Write()?
>
>
Your TCalo class should have a data member being a list (TList,
TObjArray,..) of TWfdPulse objects. If calo is an instance of TCalo,
then
calo->Write();
will write one single key for this TCalo object. The other objects
inside calo will not be visible when you list the directory.
Rene Brun