White background on plots (fwd)

From: Peter H. L. Christiansen (pchristi@nbi.dk)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 06:25:15 EST

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    Hi

If you like me disklike the default background color in ROOT, here is a
quick way to get rid of it.

Cheers
   Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:42:50 +0000
From: Rene Brun <Rene.Brun@cern.ch>
To: Reiner Rohlfs <Reiner.Rohlfs@obs.unige.ch>
Cc: David Morrison <dave@bnl.gov>, roottalk <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: [ROOT] feature adjustment

Hi Reiner, Hi Dave,
I do not intend to change the default style.
Dave, what you want is trivial to achieve by default.
In your rootlogon.C file, add the line:
  gROOT->SetStyle("Plain");

Rene Brun

Reiner Rohlfs wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I like the grey style and vote for NOT changing the color.
> 
> Reiner.
> 
> On 24-Jan-01 at 21:48, David Morrison (dave@bnl.gov) wrote:
> > Hi root-talkers,
> >
> > Something that would improve my quality of life a little bit would be
> > for the default ROOT style to use white - and not grey - for the fill
> > color of canvases and frames and all.  I know how to change this.  I
> > even know how to use TStyle to define a set of attributes that I like.
> > I can even show others how to do this.  Nonetheless, I end up looking at
> > an endless stream of grayish plots.  It'd be a small change, but I think
> > it'd improve the typical plot produced by ROOT if the "out of the box"
> > default were to be changed.
> >
> > With fingers crossed,
> > Dave
> >
> > --
> > David Morrison  Brookhaven National Laboratory  phone: 631-344-5840
> >                 Physics Department, Bldg 510 C    fax: 631-344-3253
> >                     Upton, NY 11973-5000  email: dave@bnl.gov

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