Hi Ben, I cannot reproduce your problem with SetHistlineStyle. Which version are you using? Rene Brun Benjamin E. Norman wrote: > > Hi, > I couldn't find the answer to this question in the roottalk archives, and > I've wasted enough time trying to divine the answer myself that I thought I > should ask the experts. > There seems to be some inconsistency about how and when styles must be > applied to histogram objects to bring about the desired effect. For example, > if I do > > gStyle->SetOptStat(10); > h1->UseCurrentStyle(); > h1->Draw(); > > I see an expected modification of the default statistics display. However, if > I do > > gStyle->SetHistLineStyle(3); // also tried gStyle->SetLineStyle(3) > h1->UseCurrentStyle(); > h1->Draw(); > > I see no effect (solid line, not dotted). To get this to work, I must do > > h1->Draw(); > gStyle->SetHistLineStyle(3); > h1->UseCurrentStyle(); > gPad->Update(); > > Is there a preferred and uniform way of applying (all types of) style to > histograms? I'd be very happy to find one. > > Thanks, > Ben Norman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Benjamin E. Norman bnorman@kent.edu > Kent State University Physics Dept http://kent.edu/~bnorman > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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