Sebastien,
The problem is obvious. You are not using the version from CVS.
The MakeZombie was activated only on March 22 this year.
Your version must be older.
Rene Brun
Sebastien Greder wrote:
>
> so ... where could the pb comes from ?? I don't have any idea ; if my
> objects cannot be set to a "zombie state" it could (would!) be "dangerous"
> for my prog !
>
> seb
>
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Rene Brun wrote:
>
> > Hi Sebastien,
> >
> > As I said, I cannot reproduce your problem. see below:
> >
> > root [0] TClonesArray* array = new TClonesArray("class",10) ;
> > Error in <TClonesArray::TClonesArray>: class is not a valid class name
> > root [1] if(array->IsZombie()) cout << "is zombie" << endl ;
> > is zombie
> > root [2]
> >
> > Rene Brun
> >
> >
> > Sebastien Greder wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Rene,
> > >
> > > thanks for the reply, but indeed this small script doesn't work for me :
> > >
> > > {
> > > TClonesArray* array = new TClonesArray("class",10) ;
> > > if(array->IsZombie()) cout << "is zombie" << endl ;
> > > }
> > >
> > > which obvroot [0] TClonesArray* array = new TClonesArray("class",10) ;
> > Error in <TClonesArray::TClonesArray>: class is not a valid class name
> > root [1] if(array->IsZombie()) cout << "is zombie" << endl ;
> > is zombie
> > root [2]iously gives an error message since class is not known but
> > > doesn't return the expected "is zombie" statement.
> > >
> > > seb.
> > >
> > > ps : I'm running on redhat 7.2, gcc 2.96, version 3.05/02.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Rene Brun wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Sebastien,
> > > >
> > > > I cannot reproduce your problem with the test on Zombie.
> > > > Note that in your example, you had a typo, testing on aclone
> > > > instead of aclonesarray.
> > > >
> > > > I have added the call to MakeZombie in the second TClonesArray
> > > > constructor. Thanks for this remark.
> > > >
> > > > Rene Brun
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 9 Apr
> > > > 2003, Sebastien Greder wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm facing a small problem concerning the TClonesArray constructor :
> > > > >
> > > > > I create a TClonesArray with the usual constructor :
> > > > >
> > > > > TClonesArray* aclone = new TClonesArray("aclassname",100) ;
> > > > >
> > > > > If the classname is not known by ROOT (i.e gROOT->GetClass("classname")
> > > > > fails) one gets the message : "classname is not a valid clas name"
> > > > > and MakeZombie() is called .
> > > > >
> > > > > Since I want to test if the TClonesArray has been successfuly built , that
> > > > > means not only have a message but be able to stop my prog somehow I
> > > > > decided to test the TClonesArray by : aclone->IsZombie() but this doesn't
> > > > > work, so to sum up the code :
> > > > >
> > > > > TClonesArray* trackarray = 0 ;
> > > > > TClonesArray* muonarray = 0;
> > > > > ....
> > > > >
> > > > > trackarray = InitArrays(track_branch,trackarray,"Track") ;
> > > > > muonarray = Init...
> > > > >
> > > > > TClonesArray* InitArrays(TBranchElement* abranch,
> > > > > TClonesArray* aclonesarray,
> > > > > TString aclassname)
> > > > > {
> > > > > if(abranch) {
> > > > > aclonesarray = new TClonesArray(aclassname.Data(),100) ;
> > > > > if(aclone->IsZombie()) return 0 ;
> > > > > else {
> > > > > tree->SetBranchAddress(abranch->GetName(),&aclonesarray);
> > > > > return aclonesarray ;
> > > > > }
> > > > > }
> > > > > else {
> > > > > cout << "couldn't find branch" << endl ;
> > > > > return 0 ;
> > > > > }
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > Am I doing something wrong ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for help,
> > > > >
> > > > > seb.
> > > > >
> > > > > ps : by the way the second constructor of TClonesArray :
> > > > > TClonesArray(const TClass *cl,....)
> > > > >
> > > > > does not have the call MakeZombie() if cl is NULL, just a message error
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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