sPHENIX discussion of software

[Chris Pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hello Mike,

looks good to me, no problem with that

Thanks
Chris

On 11/19/2015 12:44 PM, Michael P. McCumber wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
> In reformatting the truth info container, I would like to have access 
> to the G4TrackingManager inside the G4UserTrackingAction for the truth 
> subsystem. This will allow me to pass user info fields down to the 
> secondaries as the sim runs. I plan to pass the Parent ids in the new 
> format and the Primary ids in the new format directly to the daughters 
> in this way.
>
> The change will allow an arbitrary user track id which will facilitate 
> the reformat *and* will allow me to remove the CPU expensive trace 
> backward after processing to record the primary id on the output. So 
> will have quite a few benefits.
>
> Fortunately the G4UserTrackingAction has an internal pointer that can 
> access the tracking manager, but this must be passed in by hand during 
> the initalization setup. Here is how I intend to do that:
>
> https://github.com/mccumbermike/coresoftware/commit/8943d331fcdf02bf8d60ec36b024e3d687685162
>
> Please comment if you see some issue with this plan.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael P. McCumber, PhD
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> 505-709-8161


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