Re: "feature" found in canvasses/pads

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Jan 18 1999 - 12:04:35 MET


Chris Jillings wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    I found a feature in the canvas/pads class. I creted a canvas in a
> macro called c1. I divided it into 6 in my macro and filled the pads.
> I then decided to look at another variable and used the New Canvas option
> on the File menu of the original canvas to create a place to put the plot.
> The new canvas was called c1_2 by root. This caused the second pad on
> canvas c1 to disappear.
>    Perhaps the naming scheme for canvasses popped up with the New Canvas
> option should be different than the name given to pads formed from
> TCanvas::Divide().
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 

Hi Chris,
Thanks for reporting this anomaly.
I have modified the algorithm generating the name for a new canvas
to avoid clashes.
Note that you can already specify a default name for new canvases
via TROOT::SetDefCanvasName

Rene Brun



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