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Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Wed, 04 Nov 1998 08:49:55 +0100

Timothy Smith wrote:
>
> Hello Rooters,
>
> I am trying to create, store, redraw, etc. some cuts
> in my ntuples. This works well enough in the Macros, and
> in my compiled code I can make a TCutG via the editor, which
> is called CUTG. But when I what to rename it such that
> I can have more then one cut, I do not really know what
> "CUTG" is. Does it belong to ??
>
> The below is fine in Macros, but not in compiled.
>
> gROOT->SetEditorMode("CutG");
> CUTG->SetName("firstCut");
>

Hi Tim,
To access a TCutG object created with the graphics editor, do:
TCutG *mycutg = (TCutG*)gPad->GetPrimitive("CUTG");
cutg->SetName("mycutg");

Note that the above method applies to all objects in a pad.
I have added this info in the documentation of the class TCutG.

Rene Brun