Martin, This behaviour was changed in version 4.00/08 following several user requests. Since you are the second one to complain about the new behaviour, we will introduce a global option such that you do not have to change all your macros. Rene Brun schulte-wissermann wrote: > > hi, > is it really true that i have to use SetMinimum(0) for each of my histos > in order to keep the y-axis at zero? no other way? am i the only person > that complains? for me, the 'old' way is much more 'natural'! > just a simple example: you fill a spectrum randomly (uniform). what > you then teach your students is that - as you keep on filling - the > relative error gets smaller and the distribution finally looks flat. > what you now see is that the absolute error increases, which is nice to > know, but does not help. > btw, we have at least 10^5 histos distributed over about 200 > macros/programs in our analysis code. > so again the question: can i set the minimum in my .rootrc/.rootlogon/...? > > cheers, > martin > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Olivier Couet wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Yes the behavior has changed. You can see it also when you plot a > > subrange of the X axis. The way to get back the old behavior is to set > > the minimum to zero. > > > > Cheers, Olivier > > > > > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, schulte-wissermann wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > since i use root you Fill(...) a histo, and then you Draw() it. > > > since v4.xx the TH1F behaviour seems to be different: it automatically > > > is updated when filled, and > > > => it's minimum does not remain 0 <= > > > how can force root to keep the histo's minimum at zero > > > (without using SetMinimum(0) for each of my histos; > > > maybe something in my .rootrc?) > > > > > > greetigs, > > > martin > > > > > > ps: gcc 3.xx, root_v4.00.08 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Org: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics. > > Mail: 1211 Geneve 23 - Switzerland Mailbox: J25910 > > E-Mail: Olivier.Couet@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7676522 > > WWW: http://cern.ch/Olivier.Couet/ Fax: +41 22 7677155 > > > >
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