Re: [ROOT] ProjectionX, ProjectionY

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 15:19:31 MEST


Mikael,

The item "ProjectionX" in the TH2 context menu makes a projection,
but does not draw it. If you have a TBrowser open, you can click on the
generated histogram named "hhh_px" if "hhh" is the name of your TH2.
Otherwise from the command line, do:
  hhh->ProjectionX()->Draw();

Rene Brun

Mikael Bonnier wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm new to this list.
> 
> I'm using ROOT 3.05/05 on Linux RH9.
> 
> I have a problem getting ProjectionX and ProjectionY to
> work. I have a TCanvas containing a 2D-histogram (TH2F)
> that is containing some 200000 events. There are
> about 400 by 400 bins and the data is [0,2500] by [0,2500].
> When I right-click and choose ProjectionX and enter d as
> option I get a new histogram but it's empty, even though the
> 2D-histogram contains a lot of data. As I understand it,
> ProjectionX kind of should drop all dots onto the x-axis,
> or have I misunderstood something? Anyway, this is what I
> want to do.
> 
> Regards,
> // Mikael Bonnier
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