Re: [ROOT] suggestion : option "same" changing line color

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 10:59:54 MEST


Hi Damir,

Just my 2 cents. I am not convinced that this is a good idea.
You can already set the color via the object or the style.
It would be very confusing (and with many side-effects) to
support this proposal.

Rene Brun

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Damir Buskulic wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I had a request from a user to be able to automatically change the color
> of a histogram line when using option "same" for drawing. I will certainly
> implement it in our environment, but wouln't it be a nice enhancement in
> general ? I could see from the beginning the side effects (when do you
> change the color, when not, what for 2D, etc...) but it is true that in
> our case we use long time series and if two such series are superimposed
> with the same color, one doesn't see anything. So the first thing people
> do is to change the color or style...
> More generally, root assumes there is not much such "automatic" behaviour
> in the user interface, to let the user keep full control. But it would be
> interesting in some cases to have some kind of automatism, while being
> able to switch it off.
> Perhaps we can speak about this at the workshop.
> 
> I'm sorry if this was already discussed, I couldn't find any reference in
> the digest.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Damir
> 
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