TCollection

class TCollection : public TObject

    private:

      void operator=(const TCollection&)

    public:

             virtual void ~TCollection()
             virtual void Add(TObject* obj)
             virtual void AddAll(TCollection* col)
                     void AddVector(TObject* obj1)
                   Bool_t AssertClass(TClass* cl) const
             virtual void Browse(TBrowser* b)
                    Int_t Capacity() const
           static TClass* Class()
             virtual void Clear(Option_t* option)
                   Bool_t Contains(const char* name) const
                   Bool_t Contains(const TObject* obj) const
             virtual void Delete(Option_t* option)
             virtual void Draw(Option_t* option)
             virtual void Dump() const
              static void EmptyGarbageCollection()
         virtual TObject* FindObject(const char* name) const
         virtual TObject* FindObject(const TObject* obj) const
              static void GarbageCollect(TObject* obj)
      static TCollection* GetCurrentCollection()
      virtual const char* GetName() const
        virtual TObject** GetObjectRef(TObject* obj) const
            virtual Int_t GetSize() const
            virtual Int_t GrowBy(Int_t delta) const
          virtual TClass* IsA() const
                   Bool_t IsArgNull(const char* where, const TObject* obj) const
           virtual Bool_t IsEmpty() const
           virtual Bool_t IsFolder() const
                   Bool_t IsOwner() const
             virtual void ls(Option_t* option) const
       virtual TIterator* MakeIterator(Bool_t dir = kIterForward) const
       virtual TIterator* MakeReverseIterator() const
                 TObject* operator()(const char* name) const
             virtual void Paint(Option_t* option)
             virtual void Print(Option_t* option) const
             virtual void RecursiveRemove(TObject* obj)
         virtual TObject* Remove(TObject* obj)
             virtual void RemoveAll(TCollection* col)
                     void RemoveAll()
                     void SetCurrentCollection()
                     void SetName(const char* name)
                     void SetOwner(Bool_t enable = kTRUE)
             virtual void ShowMembers(TMemberInspector& insp, char* parent)
              static void StartGarbageCollection()
             virtual void Streamer(TBuffer& b)
                     void StreamerNVirtual(TBuffer& b)
            virtual Int_t Write(const char* name = 0, Int_t option = 0, Int_t bufsize = 0)

  Data Members
    private:

       static TCollection* fgCurrentCollection  used by macro ForEach
      static TObjectTable* fgGarbageCollection  used by garbage collector
             static Bool_t fgEmptyingGarbage    used by garbage collector
              static Int_t fgGarbageStack       used by garbage collector

    protected:

      TString fName  name of the collection
        Int_t fSize  number of elements in collection

    public:

      static const enum TObject:: kIsOwner                
      static const enum TObject:: kInitCapacity           
      static const enum TObject:: kInitHashTableCapacity  

See also

THashTable, TMap, TSeqCollection

Class Description

                                                                      
 Collection abstract base class. This class describes the base        
 protocol all collection classes have to implement. The ROOT          
 collection classes always store pointers to objects that inherit     
 from TObject. They never adopt the objects. Therefore, it is the     
 user's responsability to take care of deleting the actual objects    
 once they are not needed anymore. In exceptional cases, when the     
 user is 100% sure nothing else is referencing the objects in the     
 collection, one can delete all objects and the collection at the     
 same time using the Delete() function.                               
                                                                      
 Collections can be iterated using an iterator object (see            
 TIterator). Depending on the concrete collection class there may be  
 some additional methods of iterating. See the repective classes.     
                                                                      
 TCollection inherits from TObject since we want to be able to have   
 collections of collections.                                          
                                                                      
 In a later release the collections may become templatized.           
                                                                      

/*

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 Add all objects from collection col to this collection.

 Add all arguments to this collection.

 Make sure all objects in this collection inherit from class cl.

 Browse this collection (called by TBrowser).
 If b=0, there is no Browse call TObject::Browse(0) instead.
         This means TObject::Inspect() will be invoked indirectly

 Draw all objects in this collection.
 wildcarding supported, eg option="xxx*" draws only objects
 with names xxx*

 Dump all objects in this collection.

 Find an object in this collection using its name. Requires a sequential
 scan till the object has been found. Returns 0 if object with specified
 name is not found.

 Find an object in this collection using the object's IsEqual()
 member function. Requires a sequential scan till the object has
 been found. Returns 0 if object is not found.
 Typically this function is overridden by a more efficient version
 in concrete collection classes (e.g. THashTable).

 Return name of this collection.
 if no name, return the collection class name.

 Increase the collection's capacity by delta slots.

 Returns true if object is a null pointer.

 List (ls) all objects in this collection.
 wildcarding supported, eg option="xxx*" lists only objects
 with names xxx*

 Paint all objects in this collection.

 Print all objects in this collection.
 wildcarding supported, eg option="xxx*" prints only objects
 with names xxx*

 Remove object from this collection and recursively remove the object
 from all other objects (and collections).

 Remove all objects in collection col from this collection.

 Stream all objects in the collection to or from the I/O buffer.

 Write all objects in this collection. By default all objects in
 the collection are written individually (each object gets its
 own key). Note, this is not recursive, collections in the collection
 are written with a single key. To write all objects using a single
 key specify a name and set option to TObject::kSingleKey (i.e. 1).

Inline Functions

               void operator=(const TCollection&)
               void Add(TObject* obj)
             Bool_t IsOwner() const
              Int_t Capacity() const
               void Clear(Option_t* option)
             Bool_t Contains(const char* name) const
             Bool_t Contains(const TObject* obj) const
               void Delete(Option_t* option)
           TObject* operator()(const char* name) const
          TObject** GetObjectRef(TObject* obj) const
              Int_t GetSize() const
             Bool_t IsEmpty() const
             Bool_t IsFolder() const
         TIterator* MakeIterator(Bool_t dir = kIterForward) const
         TIterator* MakeReverseIterator() const
           TObject* Remove(TObject* obj)
               void RemoveAll()
               void SetName(const char* name)
               void SetOwner(Bool_t enable = kTRUE)
            TClass* Class()
            TClass* IsA() const
               void ShowMembers(TMemberInspector& insp, char* parent)
               void StreamerNVirtual(TBuffer& b)
               void ~TCollection()