Re: [ROOT] title of histograms

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 13:52:12 MEST


Hi Markus,
You can set the default position/size of the title box via gStyle, eg
root > gStyle->SetTitleX(0.3)
root > gStyle->SetTitleW(0.4)

Rene Brun


On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Markus Brugger wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am quite a novice in using ROOT, hence, a lot of different problems
> occured when I started to use this analysis tool. Most of them I could
> solve in reading the documentation (which is quite good), scanning
> through the tutorials (quite impressive) and refering to the roottalk
> quetions (very helpful). 
> 
> One of the problems I couldn't get rid of is the following:
> 
> When I am generating a TH2F (can be any histogram), I would like to have
> the title (including the title-box) of the histogram automatically
> centered. I couldn't find any method in the histogram class to perform
> this. Therefore I created my own "histogram" class derived from the
> usual one, just placing a new Box in the center manually using the
> defined histogram title. In principle it should be possible to do this
> directly using the root histogram class,...
> 
> may be someone knows how!
> 
> thanks a lot
> 
> Markus
> 
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