Re: What is wrong with converted hbook histos?

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 19:21:54 MET


Hi Birger,
All Root objects that can be drawn inherit from classes such as
TAttLine, TAttFill, TAttText, TAttMarker.
This is the case for histograms.
To set the line width, use
   myHist->SetLineWidth(4);
In case you want to force a gStyle option on histograms that
have been created before setting the style (histograms in a file),
You can force Root to apply the current style to the objects when they are
being read back in memory, eg
  gStyle->Setsomething....
  gROOT->ForceStyle(); // <=== the important call

Rene Brun

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Birger Koblitz wrote:

> Hi Rooters,
> 
> I have the following problem: I converted some hbook files with histograms
> and now I would like to plot them under root. This works as far as one
> does not want to plot them in a non default way. I change the markers, I
> plot with the option "l" or "c", the only thing I get is the histograms
> with errorbars as markers. The only thing I can set in the histograms
> seems to be the color.
> Now I remembered the good old PAW times and used the undocumented drawing
> option "hist", this works as far as the options are concerned that can be
> set in the drawing options, e.g. "histc" gives you a smooth line, but how
> can I set the thickness?  gStyle->SetHistLineWidth(4) before drawing
> simply refuses to work.
> 
> So could someone enlighten me:
> What is the difference between a root histo and one converted from hbook?
> Why the hell is there a difference at all???
> 
> Cheers,
>   Birger
> 
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