Re: highlighting part of the histogram

Could you post a short macro implementing my way and the small data file containing your histogram?

Rene

On 04/09/2011 14:26, Aamer Wali Rauf wrote:
> Dear Rene,
>
> I tried it, but it did not work for me. I exactly followed your
> instructions. I must mention that the original histogram I extracted
> from TList if histograms in TDirectoryFile in TFile. I don't think
> that should make any difference to how I get to the first instruction
> in your set.
>
> Regards,
> Aamer
> _________________________________
> *From:* Rene Brun
> *Sent:* 04 September 2011 11:45
> *To:* Aamer Wali Rauf
> *Cc:* roottalk_at_root.cern.ch
> *Subject:* Re: [ROOT] highlighting part of the histogram
>
> Assuming TH1* h,
> left band from bins 1 to bl
> right band bins from br to nbins
> signal band bins from sl to sr
> do:
> h->Draw();
> TH1 *hleft = (TH1*)h->Clone("hleft");
> hleft->GetXaxis()->SetRange(1,bl);
> hleft->SetFillColor(color of left band);
> hleft->Draw("same");
> TH1 *hright = (TH1*)h->Clone("hright");
> hright->GetXaxis()->SetRange(br,nbins);
> hright->SetFillColor(color of right band);
> hright->Draw("same");
> TH1 *hsig = (TH1*)h->Clone("hsig");
> hsig->GetXaxis()->SetRange(sl,sr);
> hsig->SetFillColor(color of signal band);
> hsig->Draw("same");
>
> Rene
>
>
> On 03/09/2011 13:37, Aamer Wali Rauf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way I can shade different parts of the histogram with
>> different colours. What I want to do is to show the left background
>> band, the right background band and the band around the signal. I
>> want to have these three windows shaded different just for
>> illustration.Thanks,
>> Aamer
>
Received on Sun Sep 04 2011 - 14:34:11 CEST