New base class for trigger modules handling generic events.

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/* $Id$ */
// Author: Andrei Gheata, 28/07/2009

//==============================================================================
//   AliTrigDigitalCircuit - Device that has N Boolean inputs and one Boolean
// output. This is a base class and derived digital circuits must implement the
// response function Trigger()
//==============================================================================

#include "AliTrigDigitalCircuit.h"
#include "AliTrigConnector.h"

ClassImp(AliTrigDigitalCircuit)

//______________________________________________________________________________
AliTrigDigitalCircuit::~AliTrigDigitalCircuit()
{
// Destructor
  if (fConnector) delete fConnector;
}  

//______________________________________________________________________________
Bool_t AliTrigDigitalCircuit::Connect(Int_t output, AliTrigDevice *other, Int_t at_input)
{
// Connect to an input of another device.
  if (!fConnector) fConnector = new AliTrigConnector(Form("wire_%s_%d", GetName(), output), (AliTrigDevice*)this, 0);
  fConnector->Connect(other, at_input);
}

//______________________________________________________________________________
Bool_t AliTrigDigitalCircuit::Response(Int_t /*output*/)
{
// Response function of the digital circuit. Calling user-defined one.
  fLastOutput = Trigger();
  if (fConnector) fConnector->Transmit(fLastOutput);
  return fLastOutput;
}