Re: [ROOT] yet another complaintt

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 13:18:52 MET


Hi Dmitri,

You probably missed the announcement of the Graphics Editor
in version 4.00/02. See our web site.

Rene Brun

On Mon, 23 Feb 
2004, Dmitri Litvintsev wrote:

> 
> Dear ROOTers,
> 
> I am sorry, here come one more complaint
> 
>    Suppose I plot a histogram, want to change axes range, or I want to fit
>    it, or I want to modify its graphics attributes using these pop up
>    windows. So I move cursor to the bin, click right button and invoke
>    either 'DrawPanel', 'FitPanel' or 'SetXXXAttributes'. Suppose, having
>    done the manipulation desired, I do not close the panel. Now, if I
>    plotted another histogram and tried to use any of these panels the results
>    are not that one expected.
> 
> 	Using 'FitPanel' or 'DrawPanel' brings the old histogram
> 	back.
> 
> 	Using 'SetXXXAttributes' panels does not work on the new
> 	histogram, but apparently modifies appearance of the 'old'
> 	histogram, so next time I plot it it has different colors.
> 
> 	Apparently all these pop up items are tied to the histogram,
> 	for which they were invoked.
> 
> 	This behaviour is seemingly different from the behaviour of
> 	the window invoked by 'Edit' pulldown menu. This one seems to
> 	act on whatever canvas is pointed to by 'gPad' external variable.
> 
> 	So my point is that the work with these tools is not very
> 	comfortable. The suggested usage seems to be, plot histogram,
> 	pop up whatever you need, do the modifications, close. Plot
> 	another histogram, pop up the stuff for that histogram, work
> 	with it, close, and so on.
> 
> 	IMHO this is way to many clicking which exacerbated by slowness
> 	of all these Canvases over the network.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Dmitri Litvintsev
> 
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