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DD4hep ---- Release Notes
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| v00-19 |
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2016-11-17 D.Jeans
- rewritten MegatileLayerGrid class
- not backward compatible
M.Petric:
- improved Travis CI configuration
- remove some tests from CI
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| v00-18 |
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2016-11-09 F.Gaede
- updated DDRec::LayeredCalorimeterData::Layer:
- remove deprecated thickness
- add phi0
- add copy assignement to DDRec::MaterialData
2016-11-08 M.Frank
- Improve conditions handling. Started to implement using simple telescope
detector from C.Burr.
- Add variable DD4HEP_LIBRARY_PATH to be used on MacOSX El Capitane
to overcome DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH protection issues.
- Fix to copy with negative(rebased) IDDDescriptor fields
(affects IDDDescriptor and VolumeManager).
2 New tests:
- ClientTests/Bitfield_SidesTest.xml to test readout string:
system:8,barrel:-2
- ClientTests/Bitfield_SidesTest2.xml to test readout string:
system:16,barrel:16:-5
2016-10-18 M.Frank
Due to pressure of the FCC folks, I tried to implement a more DD4hep like implementation of the
the segmentation objects. For testing only CartesianGridXY. If this mechanism works,
it could be a starting recipe for the rest of the segmentations. The draw-back of this approach is,
that assignments are not reversible:
DD4hep::CartesianGridXY xy = readout.segmentation(); // Works
DD4hep::Segmentation seg = xy; // Should not work
Reason: the managed objects are different....at some point in time I will have to find a
clean solution for this, but the required changes for such a solution shall be manageable.
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| v00-17 |
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2016-09-29 V.Volkl
Small fixes and extensions of DDEve. Show "Views" menu even if specifying xml on the command line.
Add possibility to specify event data in EveDisplay method, rather than having to select it in the gui dialogue.
Selects FCC EventHandler if specified in the config xml (as an "eventHandler"-attribute to the "display" node),
but keeps default behavior if not.
2016-08-24 M.Frank
Adding first somehow useful implementation to use conditions and the consequent loading thereof.
Used by the DDDB implementation/example. DDDB is an alternative way to populate the DD4hep
detector description using LHCb's detector description database.
The reason is, that only a running experiment has a reasonable base to conditions data
to excercise the DD4hep conditions.
If interested, please have a look in the DDDB examples.
Still TODO:
- A formal way to bootstrap the conditions loading still has to be found.
- Conditions loading from XML files and a small comprehensive example.
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| v00-16 |
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2016-07-26 Shaojun Lu
Added new MegatileLayerGridXY segmentation for Scintillator strip Ecal, which is implemented by K.Kotera,
and used by SEcal04Hybrid geometry driver.
- many ( minor fixes ) by F. Gaede, M. Petric, A Sailer, ...
2016-06-24 M.Frank
Implement multiple segmentations.
Though one readout objects (associated to one DetElement) may only have on segmentation,
The MultiSegmentation type allows to have several sub-segmentations, which can be chosen
from.
Please see examples/ClientTests/*/MultiSegmentations
At the same time allow the readout object to defined multiple collections through
the IDDescriptor.
Please see examples/ClientTests/*/MultiCollections
The combined example can be found in
Please see examples/ClientTests/*/NestedSegmentations
2016-05-03 M.Frank
Green light is ON. You may use revision 2237 and above.
2016-05-03 M.Frank
++++++++++++++++++++ NOTE: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- Mega commit. Do not use until green signal arrives with seperate release notice.
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- Package DDDB: Prove of concept, that we can populate the geometry also from other
sources than xml files obeying the lccdd notation.
- DDCore/XML: Implement the possibility to use external entity resolution for Xerces.
There is not equivalent in TinyXML (AFAIK).
- Remove some of the Spirit parsers, since the libraries are getting way too big.
This implicitly assumes, that object properties of 'exotic' types such as
deque<long double> etc. are not really used. If you need properties stay to the obvious:
string, int float, double and vectors, maps and sets thereof!
- DDG4 needed to public the DDG4Python include directory (Now in DDG4/Python).
Reason: try to create ROOT 6 dictionaries, which can be relocated for release purposes.
- ROOT 6 dictionary generation: Create dictionaries with the additional flag:
"-inlineInputHeader" which physically includes the header files used to generate the
dictionaries --> relocatability.
2016-03-21 M.Frank
- Add additional vertex argument to EventReader::readParticles, which supposedly should
2016-03-03 M.Frank
- Improve/complete job options type palette.
- Allow modify the Geant4IsotropGenerator to shoot particle distributions according
to several distributions:
flat in : uniform, cos(theta), eta/pseudorapidity, ffbar (1+cos^2 theta)
Option: generator.Distribution = 'cos(theta)'
Default is uniform.
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2016-02-15 A.Sailer
- LCIOStdHepReader.cpp
- fixed memory leak, compiled and valgrinded
2016-02-10 F.Gaede
- added utility DD4hep::XML::setDetectorTypeFlag()
to set the TypeFlag from xml element <type_flag type="0x42"/>
- select detectors with
DD4hep::Geometry::DetectorSelector(lcdd).detectors( ( DD4hep::DetType::TRACKER | DD4hep::DetType::ENDCAP )) ;
- used in UtilityApps/dumpdetector.cc
- added detector_types.xml with int constants defined in DetType.h, include with :
<include ref="${DD4hepINSTALL}/DDDetectors/compact/detector_types.xml"/>
- add elements to xml, e.g.
<type_flags type="DetType_TRACKER + DetType_ENDCAP + DetType_PIXEL + DetType_STRIP "/>
2016-02-10 M.Frank
DDCond
First implementation of conditions access. Required some movements of files
from DDG4 (Properties) and some changes in the core conditions implementation.
The basic infrastructure is now present. Don't know yet however how buggy it is...
2016-02-05 F.Gaede
- added DetElement::typeFlag() and DetElement::setTypeFlag(unsigned int types)
- added utility class DetType for setting detector type properties in type flag
2016-02-03 N.Nikiforou
DDDetectors
- Added plugin DD4hep_GenericSurfaceInstallerPlugin, copied from lcgeo
to allow installation of surfaces to any sliced detector
cmake/Doxyfile.in
- Added DDDetectors to the sources directory so Doxygen picks up the
plugin documentation
2016-02-02 F.Gaede
- set momentum at endpoint (if lcio version > 2.6 ) for MCParticles in Geant4Output2LCIO.cpp
- fixed printlevel in Geant4Action::print()
- removed random lines drawn in teveDisplay
- dont't print DetectorData by default in dumpdetector
2016-02-02 A.Sailer
DDG4
- Implemented SimulatorFlags (DDFORHEP-17)
* In ParticleHandler: vertexIsNotEndpointOfParent, Stopped, leftDetector
* Steerable distance for vertexIsNotEndpointOfParent
* TCUserParticleHanlder Simulator flags: DecayedInTracker, DecayedInCalorimeter
2016-01-21 A.Sailer/M.Frank
DDG4
- Improved user defined physics constructors
* Allows user defined global rangecut
* Allows extending particle table (e.g. B-Hadrons unknown to geant4)
2016-01-18 F.Gaede
- fixed default c'tors in DDRec/DetectorData.h to zero initialize sub-structures (LayerLayout etc)
2016-01-13 F.Gaede
- allow the default sensitive action to be a tuple with parameter dictionary in DDG4.py/ddsim.steer e.g.:
SIM.action.tracker = ("Geant4TrackerWeightedAction", {"HitPositionCombination" : 1 , "CollectSingleDeposits" : False } )
- fixed endpoint in MC-truth particles
2016-01-11 F.Gaede
- fix hit momentum in Geant4TrackerAction (Geant4SDActions.cpp)
2016-01-11 A.Sailer
DDG4
- Add LargestAcceptableStep to field setup
2016-01-07 A.Sailer
DDG4
- Fix the logic for skipping of events at the start of input files: LCIO, HepMC, stdhep and HepEvt
- Event number in lcio outputfile takes skipped events into account now
2016-01-06 F.Gaede
- bug fix in DDSurfaces::ISurface for surface properties (orthogonal/parallel to z)
(affected ILD VXD)
2016-01-05 F.Gaede
- added print functions for DDRec::DetectorData objects
- used in dumpdetector:
dumpdetector compact.xml -d
2015-12-09 N.Nikiforou
UtilityApps/teveDisplay
- Modified teveDisplay to have three separate collections of surface vectors (u,v,n)
instead of one collection. Now the vectors are colored differently.
- Changed signature of getSurfaceVectors() to allow selection of o,u,v,n vectors to
add to the collection, added option for name and color of collection.
- Renamed surface list collections to "HelperSurfaces" and "SensitiveSurfaces".
- Changed signature of getSurfaces() to allow setting of name and color of collection.
2015-12-01 M.Frank
DDG4
- Remove some of the compilation warnings
- Remove energy cut in sensitive detectors
If you though need, use a Geant4Filter to mask the action processing
examples/CLICSiD
- Add a few tests for materialscan and simulation setups using XML or CINT.
examples/ClientTests
- Add a few tests for materialscan and simulation
2015-11-24 M.Frank
DDG4
- Implementation of multi-threading mode.
To use and understand, please consult the DDG4 manual from the doc area.
- "Old" Single threaded mode and functionality is preserved.
- Numerous new classes supporting thread and master specific setup
functionality.
- Support for python configuration (see manual for details)
- Support for global Geant4Actions executing in thread reentrant shared mode.
(see manual for details)
- DDG4 examples: DDG4/examples/CLICSidSimu.py deleted and replaced with:
1) DDG4/examples/SiDSim.py (single threaded, old example)
2) DDG4/examples/SiDSim_MT.py (multi threaded version of SiDSim.py)
DDCore:
- Support user formats for the default printout statements for nicer printouts.
- Removal of compiler warnings
2015-11-23 F.Gaede
- added glbal method DD4hep::versionString()
2015-11-13 S.Lu
- Added a new AHcal Barrel segementation: TiledLayerGridXY, to be used e.g.
for the ILD AHcal Barrel Sensitive layer segmentation design.
2015-10-30 F.Gaede
- fixed LCIOFileReader to use sequential reading mode
as using direct access always required runNum==0 and sequential evt nums ...
2015-10-15 F.Gaede
DDSurfaces::ISurface/Surface
- added implemation of conical surfaces
- ICone, VolConeImpl, VolCone, ConeSurface
2015-10-13 M.Frank
DDG4
- Remove explicit constructors for modular physics lists.
Use the native Geant4 provided G4PhysListFactory instead.
The physics list is instantiated as before with the "Extends" property.
- Implement angular ranges in the Geant4IsotropeGenerator for phi [0,2pi] and theta[0,pi]
- New sensitive detector Geant4TrackerWeightedAction
Attempt to properly process combined deposits in tracking detectors.
- Debug component Geant4SurfaceTest similar to the standalone program
test_surfaces, but to be appended as a DDG4 event action for event by event
tests of hits.
2015-10-09 M.Frank
DDG4
- Extend the functionality of the DDG4 plugins
Geant4InteractionVertexBoost and Geant4InteractionVertexSmear.
If the Mask property is set to -1, all interactions present
at call time are smeared/boosted according to the parameters.
Note, that the position of the plugins within the generation
sequence is important.
- Add a new generator Geant4GeneratorWrapper to allow the use
of native G4 generator classes such as the G4ParticleGun or
the G4GeneralParticleSource. Still to be tested.
- Extend the Geant4Random functionality: May now be instantiated
like any other Geant4Action. Users may set the seed or the
luxury level.
All calls to HepRandom (CLHEP) or gRandom (ROOT) will re-use
this instance. See DDG4/examples/CLICRandom.py for illustration.
- Updated DDG4 manual.
2015-09-30 F.Gaede
- updated createGearForILD.cpp to use new parameters in LayeredCalorimeterData
( innerThickness, innerRadLength, etc)
2015-09-15 F.Gaede
- refactoring of Surface classes:
- made VolSurface a reference counting handle to
a polymorphic pointer of type VolSurfaceBase
- this should facilitate the creation
of dedicated surface classes for special cases
such as inside the beampipe or the face of the calorimeter
2015-08-27 F.Gaede
- added macros DD4HEP_VERSION_GE(MAJV,MINV) and DD4HEP_VERSION_GT(MAJV,MINV)
to LCDD.h
- increased version number to v00-15
2015-08-20 M.Frank
- DDCore: Modularize/abstract plugin manager
- VolumeManager: Fix bug propagating sensitive detectors
Showed up in the examples of nested detectors
2015-08-12 N.Nikiforou
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- DDCore/XML: Added new helper functions to Layering engine:
- double absorberThicknessInLayer(XML::Element e) :
returns total absorber thickness in given layer
- void sensitivePositionsInLayer(XML::Element e, std::vector<double>& sens_pos) :
provides positions of sensitive slices within a layer with respect to the
center of the layer
2015-07-25 M.Frank
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- DDSegmentation: Remove several 'shadow' warnings.
- New build system for the DD4hep core, which greatly simplyfies the cmake files
for the various sub-packages.
Tested with Andre's build script doc/CompileAllOptionPermutations.sh.
(GEAR usage not tested though)
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| v00-14 |
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F.Gaede
- fixed writing of generator status for lcio::MCParticle
in Geant4Output2LCIO.cpp
A.Sailer
- Add missing scope to /DD4hep/Factories.h, to not force everyone to use using namespace
F.Gaede: 2015-07-15
- changed type in SurfaceList and SurfaceMap from Surface to ISurface
- added methods length_along_u/v() to ISurface
- moved setting of CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS (if DD4HEP_USE_CXX11) from DD4hep.cmake to CMakeLists.txt
2015-07-11 M.Frank
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- added starter docs DD4hepStartersGuide.pdf
*** Important ***
Before updating, backup your existing and working checkout. Though I was running
the basic tests, there may be unchecked corners of the software.
Notes:
- Backwards compatibility mode for the usage of ROOT 5 and ROOT 6 alternatively.
- For ROOT 6 the Gaudi PluginService is used and added to the distribution.
- DD4hep is distributed with a licence. See $DD4hepINSTALL/LICENSE for details.
- In the doc area the $DD4hepINSTALL/doc/CREDITS file everybode should add her/his
name, if contributed significantly.
- Unfortunately this meant to add/change the headers of all files and give a
pointer to the licence file. If I accidentally changed the author name, please
chagne it back.
- The plugin factory declaration statements were changed to accomodate both
ROOT 5 and ROOT 6 and to keep the number of 'ifdef' statements at a minimum.
- TODO: Properly change the cmake scripts to accomodate for ROOT 6 and the
automatic switch when building DD4hep.
For reference reasons: this commits is revision 1812 + 1813 (DDDetectors)
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| v00-13 |
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2015-07-03 F.Gaede
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- updated doxygen for detector DDRec::DetectorData structs and usage in convertToGear
2015/07/02 Nikiforos Nikiforou
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- Added isRadiator() helper function in DDCore/XML/XMLDetector.h/cpp
Mirroring functionality of isSensitive() and used in geometry drivers
e.g. to calculate total absorber thickness
- Extended LayeredCalorimeterStruct in DDRec/DetectorData.h to include
additional parameters required by Pandora:
inner_phi0 (e.g. alignment for inner symmetry)
outer_phi0 (e.g aligment for outer symmetry)
NOTE: phi0 still remains but is deprecated
gap0 (e.g stave gap along r-phi)
gap1 (e.g middle stave gap along z)
gap2 (reserved for future use)
2015-06-29 A.Sailer
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- always store lcio collections, even if they are empty in Geant4Output2LCIO (DDG4/ddsim)
2015-06-29 F.Gaede
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- changed env scripts to prepend to library pathes (DD4hep and dependant packages)
-> using a newer lcgeo version than the one provided in ilcsoft can simply
be done w/ source ./bin/thislcgeo.sh
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2015/06/17 Markus Frank
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- Add possibility to block access to constants by name from LCDD.
Functionality enabled by a constant named "LCDD_InhibitConstants" with value "1", "True", "Yes".
Test: geoDisplay -compact file:../DD4hep.trunk/examples/ClientTests/compact/InhibitConstants.xml
- Add LCDDHelper handle object to easily access the sensitive detector object of a detector
using either the subdetector name or the detector element (or one of its children).
See: DD4hep/LCDDHelper.h
Test: geoPluginRun -input file:../DD4hep.trunk/examples/CLICSiD/compact/compact.xml \
-plugin CLICSiD_LCDDHelperTest \
optional: -<detector-name (default:SiVertexEndcap)> [Note the '-'!!!]
- Check when adding new sub-detector detector elements if a given one already exists.
if yes: exception.
Test: geoDisplay -compact file:../DD4hep.trunk/examples/ClientTests/compact/DuplicateSysID.xml
A. Sailer
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- DDSegmentation: Added function cellDimension which returns the dimension of any given cell
S.Lu:
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- Added a switch for BirksLaw to Geant4StepHandler.
For backward compatable, by default, do not apply BirksLaw, and apply BirksLaw with call 'doApplyBirksLaw()'.
added optional Geant4ScintillatorCalorimeterAction
- Added one 'Geant4ScintillatorCalorimeterAction' into DDG4 plugins Geant4SDActions for scintillator to take
Geant4 BirksLaw effect as sensitive detector active layer.
F.Gaede
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- added SurfaceManager class that holds maps of surfaces for
"world","tracker","calorimeter","passive" and all individual subdetectors
- to be used in reconstruction code where a lookup from cellID
to corresponding surface is needed
- needs plugin "InstallSurfaceManager" to be in the compact file
- access via:
SurfaceManager surfMan = *lcdd.extension< SurfaceManager >() ;
const SurfaceMap& surfMap = *surfMan.map( "world" ) ;
- renamed old SurfaceManager to SurfaceHelper
- added method: Geometry::Volume createPlacedEnvelope()
- to be used in all LC detector drivers to create a placed envelope volume
rest of the detector is then instantiate in this volume
- added BooleanShape plugin for creating generic boolean
shapes (subtraction, union or intersection )
- to be used for envelope definition in xml
- added new build_type: BUILD_ENVELOPE
- can be used to visulize envelopes only (geoDisplay, teveDisplay,...)
2015/05/22 Nikiforos Nikiforou
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- Fixed bug in DDG4/lcio/LCIOConversions.cpp, which stored only the PDG of the primary particle
in multiple particle contributions in SimCalorimeterHits instead of both the primary and secondary PDGs.
2015/05/13 Markus Frank
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- Fix bug in DDG4, which forced DDG4 to exit if a property from the Geant4 prompt could
not be set. No an error message is printed and the prompt is returned to the user.
(Bug submitted by A. Sailer)
2015/05/11 Andre Sailer
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- CMake updates:
- Split libraries into components: use find_package(DD4hep COMPONENTS <component> [...] )
to find the components you need.
- At the moment there are these components are sensible to link against: DDRec, DDG4, DDEve, DDSegmentation
- To link against the librarie use either DD4hep_COMPONENT_LIBRARIES or DD4hep_<COMPONENT>_LIBRARY,
where <COMPONENT> needs to be replaced by the UPPER case name of the component
2015/05/09 Markus Frank
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- Allow to access detectors by type from lcdd.
- The sensitive type of a detector is set in the 'detector constructor'.
- Not sensitive detector structures have the name 'passive'
- Compounds (ie. nested detectors) are of type 'compound'
- Dump detector types using plugin:
geoPluginRun -plugin DD4hepDetectorTypes -input <compact-file>
2015/03/12 Markus Frank
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- Add support for ellipsoids in gdml/lcdd and geant4 conversion.
- Allow to include files with environment variables from compact notation.
2015/03/09 Markus Frank
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- Finalize move to geant4 version 10, started by A.Sailer
- Add non-isotrop particle generator in DDG4 (request P.Kostka)
- Isolate ROOT plugin manager as start to move to ROOT 6
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changes in sub packages:
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- DDDetectors
- new Package containing generic DD4hep detector palette (MF)
- added 'dimension' argument to DD4hep_SiTrackerBarrelSurfacePlugin (FG)
to handle pixel and strip detectors
- DDRec (FG)
- added simple data structs in DDRec/DetectorData.h
providing interface needed for GEAR:
- added plugin for creating GEAR file for ILD
- Extended IDDecoder to give access to layer, system and barrel/endcap information. (CG)
IDDecoder is now independent of Readout object, instead it finds the correct
readout based on the cellID / position
- fixed surface implementations: removed inline virtual functions
- added methods:
VolSurface::length_along_u()
VolSurface::length_along_v()
Surface::volumeOrigin()
CylinderSurface::center()
ICylinder::center()
- DDG4 (MF)
- Fix Geant4 Primary input conversion
- Fix LCCollectionVec for LCIO output
- fixed units for MCParticle output (FG)
- fixed generator status: set to 0 if (FG)
particle created in simulation
- Add cylindrical tracking volume to particle handler
- More modular user particle handling with example Geant4TCUserParticleHandler
- fixed charge (don't devide by three) (FG)
- fixed logic for writing out MCParticles: (FG)
- don't write particles created in calo
unless scattered back into tracker)
- don't write particles created in tracker
if below MinimalKineticEnergy ( Geant4ParticleHandler)
- Added HepMC ascii reader
- added simply main program 'dd_sim' to run (FG)
a DDG4 based simulation with xml configuration files
- change TrackerCombine SD to use energy weighted positions
- added utility to dump generated files: scripts/dumpDDG4.C
- fixed dictionaries for map iteration on MacOS in python (FG)
-> added operators ==/!= for map<>::iterator
- added component to allow the setup of the magnetic field tracking in Geant4 from python
- DDCore (MF)
- fixed LCDD el-mag. field converter
- add generic surface installers
- allow for string constants in lcdd define section
- added arguments for surface plugins
- DDSegmentation (FG) :
- fixed compiler warning w/ left shift count >= width of type
- fixed wrong type string "CartesianGridXY"
- added CartesianGridYZ
- Implementation of a Polar R-phi segmentation (MP)
- examples
- add new test MiniTel(escope) to ClientTests (MF)
- moved old obsolete examples to attic
- add new example: LHeD_tracker (MF)
- add new example: SimpleDetector (FG)
(ILD like VXD and SIT )
- CMake:
- made DD4HEP_USE_BOOST an option flag (FG)
- added DD4hepG4 library dependence to DDEve (MF)
- disable dot -> have simpler (and faster) inheritance graphs w/ Doxygen
- fixed missing search field in Doxygen doc (FG)
- include boost automatically if build with Geant4
- Documentation
- improved Doxygen documentation (MF)
- added manual for DDRec (FG)
- new version of the DD4hep manual (MF)
- fixed code formating with emacs style:
./doc/format_code.sh
- removed subpackages ( moved to https://svnsrv.desy.de/public/aidasoft/DD4hep/attic ):
DDExamples_obs/
DDSense/
examples/ILDExDet/
examples/ILDExSimu/
examples/firstExample/
examples/noviceN04/
- enabled testing in nightly builds with cmake, ctest and cdash (FG)
- plus many small bug fixes (use svn log for details )
2014/09/26 Markus Frank
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- Quite some effort to improve the doxygen documentation.
The current revision is can be found at:
https://cern.ch/frankm/DD4hep/html/index.html
2014/02/06 Markus Frank
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- DDDetectors: Add example surface plugin with arguments.
-- example code: DDDetectors/src/SurfaceExamplePlugin.cpp
-- compact:
<plugin name="DD4hep_SurfaceExamplePlugin">
<argument value="SiTrackerBarrel"/>
<argument value="aa=1*mm"/>
<argument value="bb=2*cm"/>
<argument value="cc=3*m"/>
</plugin>
-- output:
SurfaceExamplePlugin: argument[0] = SiTrackerBarrel value = -1
SurfaceExamplePlugin: argument[1] = aa=1*mm value = 0.1
SurfaceExamplePlugin: argument[2] = bb=2*cm value = 2
SurfaceExamplePlugin: argument[3] = cc=3*m value = 300
2014/08/15 Markus Frank
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- DDG4: Impreoved LCIO handling for DDG4
- DDG4: Input handling:
- LCIO input file reading with multiple *independent* inputs
to support overlay, multiple interactions, etc.
- Primary verex smearing independent for each input
- Primary vertex boosts independent for each input
- DDG4: Output handling
- MC Particle handling
- Improved MC truth handling for produced Hits.
Still needs revisiting.
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Frank Gaede
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- fixed version numbers and release notes for release v00-08 and v00-09
( both have the wrong version number for the libraries 0.7 !)
- added ./doc/prepare_a_release.howto
- added new method to BitField64: setValue(unsigned lowWord, unsigned highWord )
- added some simple unit tests for BitField64
2014/08/15 Markus Frank
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- DDG4 Add possibility for user hook to the particle handler +
Data member to store additionbal particle data for the
output stage.
- Allow to display MC particles in DDEve
Add small help file describing how to start DDEve.
doc/DDEveManual.pdf
- Update CLICSiD Example.
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| v00-09 |
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2014/08/07 Markus Frank
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- DDG4: First version to support MC truth in DDG4 including
particle filtering to optimize the size of the MC record.
- DDG4 fix SimpleCalorimter sensitive action and properly support
hit aggregations.
- DDEve smaller modifications to support DDG4IO if DD4hep was
built with the Geant4 option ON.
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| v00-08 | eighth beta release ...
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- Some minor fixes:
- made compatible with older geant4 versions (9.5)
- add Bitflag to store CellID1 in SimCalorimeterHit collections
- fix position conversion from Geant4 to ROOT
- add cellID determination to SensitiveAction
- ...
Andre Sailer, 2014-07-17
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Unify cmake option variables, small cmake corrections
Change options _WITH_ to _USE_
Print Warning that variables with _WITH_ are deprecated
Change Defintions to _USE_ as well
Add REQUIRED to find_package geant4 and xercesc if they are turned on
Updated documentation
Updated ILDExDet example
Christian.Grefe, 2014-07-15
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made DDSegmentation optionally a stand-alone package
create DDSgementationConfig.cmake when build as part of DD4hep
Markus Frank, 2014-07-02
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- add LCIO conversions from DDSim - sensitive detectors
can now simply instantiate LCIO Sim hits
2014/06/30 Markus Frank
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- DDG4: Support user (context-) extensions for Geant4.
User contexts are availible for events and runs. The contexts
are accessible from the Geant4Context meber of each Geant4Action,
the base class for all processing entities.
-- Adding a context:
context()->event().addExtension(pointer_to_object, typeid(TYPE), 0);
or
context()->event().addExtension<TYPE>(pointer_to_object);
In the first case the object is NOT DELETED at the end of the event.
In the second case the object is deleted.
-- Accessing the context:
TYPE* ctx = context()->event().extension<TYPE>(false);
The boolean argument indicates if an exception should be thrown
if the extension is not present ie. here no exception.
- DDCore: adjust a few print statements.
2014/06/27 Markus Frank
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- Separate XML loading from LCDD implementation.
- New package: DDEve: a bit more sophisticated TEve specialization
To start use examples/CLICSiD/compact/DDEve.xml
DDEve can interface currently to ROOT files created by DDG4.
An example data file is provided as well in:
examples/CLICSiD/compact/CLICSiD_events.root
Documentation is lacking a bit....
start the display with:
$> root.exe ${DD4hepINSTALL}/examples/DDEve/DDEve.C
2014/06/19 Frank Gaede
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- replaced TGeoUnits.h by DD4hepUnits.h
- renamed namespace tgeo to dd4hep
-> users need to replace tgeo::mm by dd4hep::mm
2014/06/12 Frank Gaede
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- changed default unit for angles to be radians (tgeo::rad = 1.)
- enforce usage of units from TGeoUnits.h in xml expression evaluators
- convert to degrees for angles in TGeoShapes constructors
- NB: there is one inconsistency left here: angles returned
from TGeoShapes are already in degrees, this is the one
case where a quantity returned from DD4hep/TGeo does not have the default
units - thus one should not write
double phi = coneSeg.Phi1() / tgeo::rad ;
but rather
double phi = coneSeg.Phi1() * tgeo::deg ;
2014/06/03 Markus Frank
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- Provision for ROOT persistency for DD4hep detector descriptions:
Create Cint dictionary for DD4hepCore by default when building the library.
For the time being the area of DDSegmentation is left out, since these
objects require changes due to the handling of references and template
specializations. Besides these, DD4hep detector descriptions can be
saved and read-back directly to/from ROOT files - which may improve
a lot the startup time of processes.
- The DDG4 dictionary is created by default when building the library.
When importing DDG4 from python only the DD4hepCore DD4hepG4 libraries
must be present. It should no longer be necessary to compile the
necessary AClick on the fly.
- Investigations on wirframe drawing:
Wireframes are a property of the scene graph. You can toggle to wireframe
using the 'w' key on the keyboard. Other representations are
'r': Solid view
't': Solid + wireframe view.
This information is accessible from the help menu of the ROOT OGL widget.
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2014/05/28 Markus Frank
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- Several fixes and improvements in DDG4
- Cache output levels in Geant4Kernel object
- Add shell handler to measure energy escape e.g. in calorimeters
- Fix bug in Polycone shapes concerning angles.
IMPORTANT: If you forked the repository examples/CLICSiD
your PolyconeSupport does not work anymore, because the angles
were given in degrees. They should be given in radians!
2014/05/21 Markus Frank
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- Fix material creation from XML
JIRA bug: DD4hep - DDFORHEP-4
https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/DDFORHEP-4
using <composite> in material xml files results in wrong material properties
- Fix JIRA bug: DD4hep - DDFORHEP-3
https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/DDFORHEP-3
Recursive assemblies result in error in TGeo geometry
Bug results in errors when closing the geometry like:
"Error in <TGeoVoxelFinder::SortAll>: Wrong bounding box for volume SIT_assembly"
- Provision to store survey constants to the DetElement as an extension
for Alignment calculations (priv. comm. C.Parkes)
- Fix bug in expression evaluation of angles.
All detector constructors receive angles in "rad". No correction
from degree to rad should be necessary.
2014/05/21 Frank Gaede
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- add MaterialManager class providing
- access to materials at any point or on straight
line between two points
- creation of material with averaged properties (A,Z,rho,x0,Lambda)
- added utility print_materials to print material properties along
a straight line between two points including integrated radiation and
interaction lengths (useful for debugging geometries and materials)
- use avaeraged material for Surfaces where the thickness extends
beyond the volume boundaries
- introduced new simple data class MaterialData for this
*** known issues
** materials don't work for detectors with assemblies in assemblies
as the TGeo navigation dose not seem to work:
Error in <TGeoVoxelFinder::SortAll>: Wrong bounding box for volume SIT_assembly
-> ROOT bug or feature ?
** using <composite/> in compound materials results in incorrect material properties
see ILDExDet/compact/materials Polysterene as example
2014/05/06 Frank Gaede
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- DDSurfaces/DDRec:
- added ICylinder and CylinderSurface to provide
access to cylinder radius for the tracking
- teveDisplay:
- draw sensitive surfaces in red and helper surfaces in gray
- protect against missing lcio input file
- reduced printout from VolumeManager (changed INFO to DEBUG)
2014/04/05-2014/04/29 Frank Gaede
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- Implementation of Surface classes for track reconstruction
- abstract interfaces in DDSurface: ISurface and IMaterial
- implementation in DDRec: Surface, SurfaceManager, DetectorSurfaces
- basic functionality exists:
- meassurement surface vectors u,v, normal and origin
- check if point is inside the bounds of the corresponding volume
- currently the material is taken to be the one from the volume
-> to do: average material if surface thicknesses extend beyond the
volume for comound materials
- added drawing of surfaces and (Sim)TrackerHits and (Sim)CalorimeterHits to teveDisplay
( link lcio file to teve_infile.slcio )
- added some surfaces to ILDExDet: VXD, SIT, TPC
- added test_surfaces to ILDExSimu
(fails currently for some hits that are not created on the surface ...)
- added some assemblies to ILDExDet to better structure the geometry hierarchy
2014/04/28 Markus Frank
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- First attempt to understand fully the handling of recursive assemblies
from the 2014/04/25 was apparently with limited success. Now they should
work!
2014/04/25 Markus Frank
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- Moved boost::spirit parsers to DDCore, since these parsers are also used
in other packages such as DDCond and DDAlign - whenever strings have to be
converted to objects.
Consequently, the boost spirit code fragments were removed from DDG4.
- Improved and more correct type checking when assigning handles
- Explicit implementation of the object extension mechanism to be used
through inheritance or aggregation rather than having seperate and nearly
identical implementations for various objects.
- Improved defintition of basic objects describing Conditions and Alignment.
- Improved implementation of DDAlign, the alignment support.
Not to be used currently - experimental package.
- Initial implementation of DDCond the package supporting the handling of
conditions.
Not to be used currently - experimental package.
- Geant4Converter: I convinced myself, that the bug in handling assemblies
of assemblies is resolved. To be tested though.
2014/02/07 Frank Gaede
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- added DDGear, support for interfacing to gear for backward compatibility
- lives currently in ILDExDet ( should become (optional) part of core DD4hep)
- users need to GearParameter objects as extensions to the DetElement
-> see ILDExTPC_geo.cpp, ILDExVXD_geo.cpp, ILDExTPCSIT_geo.cpp as examples
- program convertToGear creates gear xml file from compact file
( only if GearParameter objects are avialble as extensions)
- added test_convert_ild_gear
- fixed geometry in ILDExVXD_geo.cpp, ILDExTPCSIT_geo.cpp
wrt. to position of support ans sensitive ladders
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| v00-06 | sixth beta release ...
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2014/02/04 Frank Gaede
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- fixed environment scripts thisdd4hep.sh and this${PackageName}.sh
to also export library pathes for external libraries (CLHEP, LCIO, gear)
- added some simple tests to ILDExDet, ILDExSimu and noviceN04
- provide cmake script run_test_package.sh ( configured as run_test_${PackageName} )
to call test binaries after initializing the environment
(needed for automated/nightly tests)
- updated Readme.txt wrt build procedure and running the tests
2014/01/17 Markus Frank
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- Prepare implementation of Alignment using Release and Grap features of TGeoVolume
and TGeoNode. In principle this was done in a backwards compatible way, but
I cannot really check 100% the #ifdef's.
- Fix handling of XML collections using XercesC.
(Bug reported by P.Kostka).
- Fix several compiler warnings issued by Coverity.
2013/12/17 Markus Frank
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- Whole load of fixes to keep coverity quiet....
- Fix bug in DDG4 field interface component
- Allow the usage of units, positions and lorentzvectors and in DDG4 properties.
Example using a position property (ROOT::Math::XYZVector):
Idle> /ddg4/Gun/position (1*mm,1*cm,0.01*m)
Geant4UIMessenger: +++ Gun> Setting property value position = (1*mm,1*cm,0.01*m)
native:( 1 , 10 , 10 ).
- Support for std::vector<T>/std::list<T>/std::set<T> properties.
- Support for include directives of the format
<include ref="file-name"/>
for the top level <lccdd> tags
Parent tag Included root tag Data content
-- <lccdd> <define> See below.
<detectors>
<detector>
<display>
<lccdd> Nested includes (with DTD validation for Xerces-C)
-- <define> <define> Set of constants
-- <detectors> <detector> Single XML subdetector description
-- <detectors> <detectors> Multiple XML subdetector descriptions
-- <display> <display> Set ov visualization attributes
DTD validation is only performed using Xerces-C for root tags <lccdd>.
Note:
<lccdd> include directives are executed BEFORE any other directive!
Other include directives are executed BEFORE the corresponding named directive!
2013/11/14 Markus Frank
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- Reformat files in DDCode and DDG4 to remove the <TAB>s from the source files.
Hopefully the content is now more readable.
- DDCore: Remove empty and named constructors for shapes. Empty constructors
were simply a dangerous hook to memory leaks, named constructors are
deprecated since along time.
- DDG4: add support for messengers to access and modify properties from
the Geant4 prompt. For the test hit classes and the simple sensitive
detector a ROOT I/O plugin was provided.
- DDG4: Split into several libraries:
-- libDDG4.so pure link library without any plugins
-- libDDG4Legacy.so 'Old' plugins. The old stuff at some point
will have to disappear.
-- libDDG4Plugins.so New framework plugins
-- libDDG4LCIO.so LCIO output plugin for new framework
2013/11/03 Markus Frank
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- doc: Add CHEP2013 paper about DD4hep as a start of the documentation
section. More to come hopefully.
- DDCore: several small improvements:
- Segmentations are no longer Ref_t's.
- Base internal implementing object directly on the segmentations
classes from Christian.
- Rearrangement of some code from Handle.h to Primitives.h
- Allow to attach extensions to LCDD
- DDG4: Fix Frank's simulation problem, which he caused himself
introducing his famous factories....
- DDG4: First attempt to fix simulation problem with mignetic field.
Ready for testing.
- DDG4: First commit of a independent simulation aimed for LHCb and LHeC
+ other newcomers. Documentation needs to be written.
Features:
- Modular setup of all Geant4 action routines as plugins, including the
Run-, event-, tracking-, stacking-, stepping- and generator-actions
as well as the physics lists with particle and physics constructors.
- Setup is possible in XML or with C++ either as an AClick in root or
standalone. Python based starter to come.
- Missing is a modular description of the G4 UI and VIS manager(s).
- Documentation is to come. Before documentation is not present
the usage is discouraged.
Note:
- This version of DDG4 uses boost::spirit. It will compile without
the BOOST include files and the old functionality is preserved,
but it will not work.
To use BOOST add to the cmake statement the following tags:
cmake <regular tags> \
-DDD4HEP_USE_BOOST=ON \
-DBOOST_INCLUDE_DIR=${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR} ....
Where BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR should point to the boost header directory.
BOOST libraries are not used.
2013/10/18 Markus Frank
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- Throw exception if the expression evaluator sees a problem.
The message printed before was often not seen.
- Improve printout on exceptions and plugin abortion
- Remove the typedef RotationZYX -> Rotation and
import the type RotationZYX from ROOT::Math.
- Add more explicit error messages in case a plugin is not found.
- Add file TGeoUnits.h, which allows to use the "usual SystemOfUnits"
from CLHEP using TGeo with the namespace tgeo::xxx
Example: tgeo::mm -> 0.1 (Geant3: cm, sec, GeV, degree)
::mm -> 1.0 (Geant4: mm, nsec, MeV, radian)
I hope I got all translations right.
Geant4 Geant3
----------------------------------------------------------------
millimeter mm=1,cm=10 centimeter mm=0.1,cm=1
nanosecond s=1e9 second ns=1e-9,s=1
Mega electron Volt GeV=1e3 GeV GeV=1
radian rad=1 degree rad=180/pi
Unclear to me was if in Geant3 steradian is also 2*2*pi or 2*2*180 degree.
No-date F. Gaede
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- changes to build system:
(see ReadMe.txt for details)
- moved examples to ./example directory
- they are not built as part of DD4hep anymore
- install thisdd4hep.sh in ./bin
(modified to have the correct pathes)
- added -DINSTALL_DOC=on/off option
to build doxygen documentation (in ./doc/html/index.html)
- create DD4hepConfig.cmake for easy building against DD4hep
( see examples CMakeLists.txt)
- fixed doxygen API documentation (C.Rosemann)
(greatly improved with many graphs)
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| v00-04 | fourth beta release ...
-------- - placement options are now compatible with geant4
- fixed Geant4SensitiveDetector::getVolumeID()
- modified ILDEx model to not use assemblies (for now !?)
- removed obsolete geant4 example ILDEx
- Fix population procedure of volume manager
- Fix uniqueness of volume identifiers.
- Remove call with lookups by placed volume to the volume manager
- improved ILDEx toy example:
- fixed creation of cellIDS for simhits
- creates SimTrackerHits for VXD, SIT and TPC
- creates SimCalorimeterHits for AHcal barrele and endcap
- works now wigth ILDExSimu _and_ SLIC if no assemblies are used
- assemblies work with the DD4hep Geant4Converter and VolumeManager
- added a prototype example for a ROOT independent
plugin mechanism for SensitiveDetectors
- added example implemetation for Calice test beam
calorimeters: CaliceTbeam (Shaojun Lu, DESY)
2013/21/06 Markus Frank
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1) Since the placement model for combined translations and rotations
caused more confusion than good, it was agreed to move to a more
Geant4 like placement model using Vectors, Rotations and Transformations
from ROOT::Math. To place a physical volume only one of these
is allowed as an argument: either a rotation or a translation
for simple placements. Combinations may be constructed with Transform3D
objects allowing more complicated placements.
The same mechanism was applied for the operations to construct
boolean solids.
2) The CLICSid Examples were updated according to the changes necessary
from 1)
3) The Tesla drivers from the ILDExDet example were removed. They are
not compliant to 1).
4) The G4 package allows now to translate TGeo geometries to Geant4.
Visual inspection has shown an agreement between the two geometries.
5) The TGeo to LCDD/GDML conversion is still buggy. Hence, simulations
using slic as an engine do not yet work. This is being looked at.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The changes described in 1) may affect existing detector constructors.
Unless all problems are solved you should be careful to move to the svn
head. In any case save your checkout or use the tag v00-03.
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| v00-03 | third beta release ...
-------- - broken geometry (for some rotations/translations)
- 'backup release' before placement options
will be reduced
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| v00-02 | second beta release ...
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2013/02/06 Markus Frank
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1) Simplyfy inheritance for common objects from TNamed.
Use direct inheritance of Object from TNamed rather than hidden
using the Value<a,b> construct.
2) Added physical volume manager to simplyfy the detector element
and sensitive detector lookup from a given physical volume.
This implies: If the volume manager is instantiated, the readout specifiers
MUST be correct. This is in most xml files NOT the case.
The "system" field holding the sibdetector-id is MANDATORY!
Otherwise you will receive messages like this:
Exception:SITCollection: This ID descriptor has no field with the name:CellID0
while programming VolumeManager. Are your volIDs correct?
3) To check the volume identification, add argument -volmgr to geoConverter,
geoDisplay, etc.
4) To trace possible memory leaks:
export DD4HEP_TRACE=Yes
then run you converter etc. At the end a table is displayed with a "leakage"
column, showing how many objects were not deleted.
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| I n s t a n c e c o u n t e r s b y T Y P E I N F O |
+----------+---------+-------------------------------------------+
| Total | Leaking | Type identifier |
+----------+---------+-------------------------------------------+
| 13| 0|DD4hep::Geometry::DetElement::Object
| 3| 0|DD4hep::Geometry::SensitiveDetector::Object
| 3| 0|DD4hep::Geometry::Readout::Object
| 1| 0|DD4hep::Geometry::OverlayedField::Object
| 1| 0|DD4hep::Geometry::CartesianField::Object
....
Ideally the second column only has "0"s. Instances of 1 may be OK (singletons).
Prenotice:
As soon as ROOT v 6.00 is out, we will have to use it!
Andrei kindly agreed to implement a few changes to TGeo, which will make
life much easier and the implementation cleaner and less cumbersome.
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| v00-01 |
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- first beta release...
2013/20/03 Markus Frank
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1) Finished the compact->lcdd converter
Extract lcdd information
$ > geoConverter -compact2lcdd -input file:<compact-input-xml-file> -output <detector>.lcdd
$ > <SimDist>/scripts/slic.sh -o output.slcio -g SiD.lcdd -m <geant4-macro>.mac -r 100
2) Finished the compact->gdml converter
Full GDML cycle can be tested (deplace <detector> with some meaningful identifier):
a) Extract gdml information
$ > geoConverter -compact2gdml -input file:<compact-input-xml-file> -output <detector>.gdml
b) Extract visualisation hints to csv file
$ > geoConverter -compact2vis -input file:<compact-input-xml-file> -output <detector>.vis.csv -ascii
c) Load GDML into ROOT:
$ > root.exe ../doc/gdml_root.C+\(\"<detector>\"\)
The macro expects *at least* the <detector>.gdml file. If no visualisation
information is found, the resulting graphics however is not very nice!
2013/22/02 Markus Frank
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1) Today a decision was taken to remove all _X() and _A() macros
accessing static unicode strings. A common macro will be used to
address both XML elements and XML attributes using the macro _U(...).
The original usage only created confusion.
All _X and _A macros were replaced by _U.
2) Improve the executables running the plugin mechanism in UtitlityApps.
They now complain if the plugin was not found.
2013/21/02 Markus Frank
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Require strict checks for the existence of xml attributes.
e.g. default=false for Element::attr<bool>() is no longer an option.
if the attribute is not present in the element, an exception
is thrown.
Slightly change the factory method for creating detector elements.
Use a more generic pattern do support also more generic XML
processing.
2013/20/02 Markus Frank
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Install rootmap mechanism for the usage of plugins.
It is no longer necessary to have separate programs
for the various detector models (ILD/SiD).
One generic display program servest them all.
==> Creation of package DDExamples/UtilityApps
example: $> bin/displayGeo -compact <compact-xml-file>
This move has another consequence:
All libraries are build into a common install area:
the <build directory>/lib.
All executable binaries are build into a common install area:
the <build directory>/bin.
The LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH variables as defined in
'thisdd4hep.(c)sh' do include these directories
2013/20/02 Markus Frank
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DD4hep release notes. Better start them late than never.
If you perform significant changes to the DD4hep core,
plase leave a small notice here.