How to modify the default value of arguments in context menu

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Hi,

I’m using a method which is shown in the contect menu and which is is used by the user to select a shift on a graph that he wants to applied. I have seen that the default value printed in the box opened from the menu can be a non static variable as the last enterd value. How can I do that ? I have tried in my header something like this :

protected:
double fCurrentXShift;
virtual void SetXShift(double XShift); //MENU={Hierarchy=“Shift/SetXShift”} ARGS={XShift=>fCurrentXShift}

but nothing is printed in the box when I click on SetXShift in the ContextMenu

An idea ?

Jérémie

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Hi Jérémie,

I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to do… Could you post a small, running piece of code showing it?

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Hi Bellenot

It’s quite complicated to show what I want to do by posting a small piece of code. Perhaps it will be clearer with screenshots. I am using a TTask which execute different methods on electronic signals which are printed on a Canvas. These methods are shown on the menu bar of the TTask as the Shift method for example (Screenshot1). When I click on it, the open box which ask for a parameter (Screenshot2). The default value of this parameter is manually initialize at 0, but I want that this default value is equal to the last entered value, contained in a variable of my Class (fCurrentXShift for example). I have seen that it is possible to do that with the ROOT interpretor with something like that in the class header:
virtual void SetXShift(double XShift); //MENU={Hierarchy=“Shift/SetXShift”} ARGS={XShift=>fCurrentXShift}
But this is not working.

Is it more understandable ?

Jérémie

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Hi Jeremie,

You need a getter for the fCurrentXShift variable, then it will work. For example, this works for me:

protected: double fCurrentXShift; public: virtual void SetXShift(double XShift) {} //*MENU* *ARGS={XShift=>fCurrentXShift}* virtual double GetCurrentXShift() const { return fCurrentXShift; } But it doesn’t work without the GetCurrentXShift() method.

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Perfect, it works now!

Thank you very much :smiley:

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Hi,

I re-open my old post. Is there a way to do the same thing, with a multi-input method ? Typically, I want to define the method from the context menu:
void SetSomething(float a, float b);

and that the values of a, and b proposed by default in the opened window, are the current values of ma class variables fA, and fB ?

Thanks in advance

Jérémie

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   void SetSomething(float a, float b); // *MENU* *ARGS={a=>fA,b=>fB}
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I don’t understand why but it doesn’t work for me, here is what I’ve done:

class MyClass : public TH1D
{

RQ_OBJECT("MyClass");

private:
    Float_t fLenghtFactor = 1.;
    Float_t fWidth        = 6.;
    Float_t fFWHM_0       = 9.;
    Float_t fFWHM_1       = 0.004;
    Float_t fFWHM_2       = 0.;

public:

MyClass(TH2 *hist);
~MyClass();

void SetBackground(Float_t LenghtFactor, Float_t Width, Float_t FWHM_0, Float_t FWHM_1, Float_t FWHM_2); //*MENU* *ARGS={LenghtFactor=>fLenghtFactor,Width=>fWidth,FWHM_0=>fFWHM_0,FWHM_1=>fFWHM_1,FWHM_2=>fFWHM_2}

ClassDef(MyClass,1);

};
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Please read this:

And then, could you send code which can be run, and describe what are the errors you get?

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Please find attached an example that you can run.
The histogram that is plotted is the one from my derivated class. If you make a right click on it, and execute the SetBackground Method, the default values are not the one of the variables of my class.

Thanks in advance

Jérémietest.C (1.0 KB)

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Here is the modified macro. You need the getters to properly set the default values, and the initialisation has to be done in the constructor.
test.C (1.3 KB)

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Perfect, thank you !