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 > > /----------------------------------------------------------\ > | Tel: (630) 840 5005 | > | FAX: (630) 840 2968 | > | office: 149-L CDF Trailers | > | E-mail: litvinse@fnal.gov | > \----------------------------------------------------------/ > > >
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