Re: [ROOT] Hbook/PAW files now readable from ROOT

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 20:05:10 MET


Hi Valery,

 libHbook is linked against a static copy of libkernlib and libpacklib.

Cheers, Fons.



On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 19:46, Valeri Fine wrote:
> Hello Rene,
> 
> Can you elaborate whether a new share library is linked against of any 
> CERNLIB libraries Since many ROOT-based our application need CERNLIB as well
> including a share library that is linked with CERNLIB may cause some "side effect"
> we would like to avoid.
> 
>   Thank you, Valeri
> -----
> Dr.Valeri Fine
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> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rene Brun" <Rene.Brun@cern.ch>
> To: <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>; <pclark@SLAC.stanford.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:58 PM
> Subject: [ROOT] Hbook/PAW files now readable from ROOT
> 
> 
> > Dear Rooters,
> > 
> > A set of classes allowing to read directly Hbook files in ROOT
> > are now available in the CVS development version. The classes are:
> >   -THbookFile:   an Hbook file object
> >   -THbookTree:   an Hbook Ntuple (Row or Column-Wise)
> >   -THbookBranch: an ntuple column
> >   -THbookKey:    service class to browse Hbook directories
> > The new classes are in a separate optional shared lib libHbook.so
> > 
> > With these classes, one can:
> > - import automatically any 1-d, 2-d or profile histograms. The Hbook types
> > are converted on the fly to Root types TH1F, TH2F and TProfile.
> > 
> > - import ntuple headers (Row or Column-Wise).
> > A new data type THbookTree (deriving from TTree) with functions like
> > hbookTree.Draw("x","selection") like for a normal TTree. The ntuple data
> > are read directly from the Hbook file.
> > 
> > - The Tree viewer can be used directly: hbookTree.StartViewer();
> > 
> > - Browse the THbookFile via TBrowser. Clicking on a Hbook ID in a file
> > draws the histogram.
> > 
> > - When in the browser, the context menu item "Convert2root" can be selected
> > to convert a THbookFile into a normal TFile (via h2root). The converted file
> > is by default connected to the browser.
> > 
> > Example:
> >   gSystem->Load("libHbook");
> >   THbookFile f("myfile.hbook");
> >   f.ls();
> >   TH1F *h1 = (TH1F*)f.Get(1);  //import histogram ID=1 in h1
> >   h1->Fit("gaus");
> >   THbookTree *T = (THbookTree*)f.Get(111); //import ntuple header
> >   T->Print();  //show the Hbook ntuple variables
> >   T->Draw("x","y<0"); // as in normal TTree::Draw
> >   T->StartViewer();
> > 
> > I have tested these classes on several Hbook files containing histograms
> > and ntuples of various complexity.
> > 
> > Note that a THbookFile is a read only file.
> > 
> > I would appreciate feedback on these classes.
> > 
> > Rene Brun
> > 
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