[ROOT] Re: THStack doesn't seem to preserve shapes of histogram

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 12:21:05 MEST


Hi Dongwook,

There are several options to draw a THStack object.
See: http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/THStack.html#THStack:Paint

In your case, you should use the option "nostack"

Rene Brun

Dongwook Jang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I found THStack is very nice and useful. But it didn't preserve
> histogram shape at some point.
> 
> When I tried like:
> 
> TH1F* mc = (TH1F*) mcFile->Get("eTrack");
> TH1F* data = (TH1F*) dataFile->Get("eTrack");
> THStack* hs = new THStack("hs","variables 1");
> hs->Add(mc);
> hs->Add(data);
> hs->Draw();
> 
> where mcFile and dataFile are root file containing 1D histograms.
> 
> When I swap the adding order, the drawn plots are different. I
> understand the scales are different, but I think the shape at least
> should be preserved, right? Both histograms have same x-range and same bins.
> 
> Is it a bug or am I missing something?
> Thank you.
> 
> --
> 
> Best regards,
> Dongwook Jang.
> phone : 630-840-2118 (office B0 170-I) 630-840-6315 (FAX)



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