Re: [ROOT] tick marks and filled histograms

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 10:33:32 MET


Hi Andreas,

You seem to have a very old version of the macro hsum.C.
See the new version in attachement and look at the statement at the end;
  total->Draw("sameaxis"); // to redraw axis hidden by the fill area

Rene Brun

Andreas Morsch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> by default filling a histogram covers the tick marks.
> (see for example http://root.cern.ch/root/html/examples/gif/hsum.gif)
> Does anybody know how to avoid this ?
> 
> Best regards
> - Andreas Morsch (ALICE)

{
//
// To see the output of this macro, click begin_html <a href="gif/hsum.gif" >here</a> end_html
//    Simple example illustrating how to use the C++ interpreter	
//    to fill histograms in a loop and show the graphics results
//

  gROOT->Reset();

  c1 = new TCanvas("c1","The HSUM example",200,10,600,400);
  c1->SetGrid();

  gBenchmark->Start("hsum");

// Create some histograms.
  total  = new TH1F("total","This is the total distribution",100,-4,4);
  main   = new TH1F("main","Main contributor",100,-4,4);
  s1     = new TH1F("s1","This is the first signal",100,-4,4);
  s2     = new TH1F("s2","This is the second signal",100,-4,4);
  total->Sumw2();   // this makes sure that the sum of squares of weights will be stored
  total->SetMarkerStyle(21);
  total->SetMarkerSize(0.7);
  main->SetFillColor(16);
  s1->SetFillColor(42);
  s2->SetFillColor(46);
  TSlider *slider = 0;

// Fill histograms randomly
  gRandom->SetSeed();
  const Int_t kUPDATE = 500;
  Float_t xs1, xs2, xmain;
  for ( Int_t i=0; i<10000; i++) {
     xmain = gRandom->Gaus(-1,1.5);
     xs1   = gRandom->Gaus(-0.5,0.5);
     xs2   = gRandom->Landau(1,0.15);
     main->Fill(xmain);
     s1->Fill(xs1,0.3);
     s2->Fill(xs2,0.2);
     total->Fill(xmain);
     total->Fill(xs1,0.3);
     total->Fill(xs2,0.2);
     if (i && (i%kUPDATE) == 0) {
        if (i == kUPDATE) {
           total->Draw("e1p");
           main->Draw("same");
           s1->Draw("same");
           s2->Draw("same");
           c1->Update();
           slider = new TSlider("slider","test",4.2,0,4.6,total->GetMaximum(),38);
           slider->SetFillColor(46);
        }
        if (slider) slider->SetRange(0,Float_t(i)/10000.);
        c1->Modified();
        c1->Update();
     }
  }
  slider->SetRange(0,1);
  total->Draw("sameaxis"); // to redraw axis hidden by the fill area
  c1->Modified();
  gBenchmark->Show("hsum");
}



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