ROOTANA

• Midas Doc
• Feature Listing
• Application Listing
• Online Database
• FAQ
• Index

Links

• ROOT
• https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/rootana
• git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/rootana.git
• git clone http://ladd00.triumf.ca/~daqweb/git/rootana.git
• (obsolete) ROOTANA SVN reporitory (username svn, password svn)
• ROOTANA Doxygen documentation

Download and Quick start

echo $ROOTSYS # check correct installation of ROOT
root-config # check correct installation of ROOT

git clone https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/rootana.git
cd rootana
make
make dox

more analyzer.cxx
more event_dump.cxx

Introduction

Welcome to ROOTANA, the ROOT (https://root.cern.ch) based data analysis package for the MIDAS Data Acquisition system (https://midas.triumf.ca).

The ROOTANA package includes 5 major components:

• a standalone library for reading and writing data files in the MIDAS .mid format, and for decoding the XML dump of MIDAS ODB typically embedded in every MIDAS data file. (libMidasInterface)
• a C++ interface class for connecting to an active MIDAS experiment, accessing ODB (read and write) and getting event data. (libMidasInterface)
• a set of C++ classes for exporting ROOT histogram and other objects to an external viewer for interactive visualization of live data, typically using the ROODY histogram viewer or using a standard web browser (experimental feature). (libMidasServer, libNetDirectory, libXmlServer)
• simple examples of using these components (a graphical analyzer, an event dump and an event skim programs) (analyzer.cxx, event_dump.cxx, event_skim.cxx)
• a full featured framework for graphical data analysis including code to unpack typical VME and CAMAC modules ( see rootana Analyzer Framework and rootana Display Framework)

The ROOTANA package can be used without installing ROOT and MIDAS:

• without both ROOT and MIDAS one can only read (and write) existing .mid files. Only event_dump and event_skim will be built.

if only the MIDAS package is installed, access to live data and access to live ODB becomes possible. Only event_dump and event_skim will be built. decoding of XML ODB dumps embedded in MIDAS files requires ROOT TXML and TDOMParser components (a version of XML decoder using libxml2 used to exist in the past).

• if the ROOT package is installed but MIDAS is absent, full function of ROOTANA is available, except for access to live data. This mode is suitable for offline data analysis, i.e. the user has a copy of MIDAS data files on their laptop and wants to analyze them.

The sources for ROOTANA are managed at https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/rootana.

Components

MIDAS Interface

TMidasEvent, TMidasFile, TMidasOnline, VirtualODB, etc

XML Server

xmlServer & co

example programs

• event_dump
• event_skim
• standalone graphical analyzer.cxx

ROOT Analyzer framework

rootana provides low-level access to the MIDAS data files and online MIDAS data. Using these low-level functionality users can design whatever sort of programs they want for accessing and analyzing the data.

rootana also provides a more structured, higher-level framework for organizing analysis programs. The framework includes a standard event loop class and a standard display program. Details on this higher-level framework available in rootana Analyzer Framework and rootana Display Framework.

Migration from ROOTANA pre-svn revision 91

From: Alisher Sanetullaev <sanetulla@triumf.ca>
Subject: Re: rootana svn version

I think I have resolved the problem. I had to bring the anaIris code up to date with the latest rootana. Now it compiles.

1. added #include "stdint.h" in src/HandleMesytec.cxx.
2. Commented out the #include "midasserver.h" lines from all files.
3. Changed $(ROOTANA)/librootana.o to $(ROOTANA)/lib/librootana.o in the Makefile. (That file has moved to a different
directory in rootana directory.)
4.  Changed eventHeader_t to TMidas_EVENT_HEADER in src/anaIris.cxx.

NOTE: I think one also needs to add -I$ROOTANA)/include to the CFLAGS