Modern style and pad selection

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Dear all,

In the old time, when the histograms looked really ugly, we could (at least) see the sub-pads of a canvas and which one was selected (cd x).

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What should I change in the style “modern” to have the contour of the pads in grey and the selected pad in another color ?

Thank you very much,
Barth

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// http://root.cern.ch/root/html/TStyle.html#TStyle:TStyle@1 gROOT->SetStyle("Classic");

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Hello,

I might not have expressed clearly. I want to keep the nice looking modern style but add a fine grey line around pads and a fine colored line around the selected pad.

Thank you
Barth

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// http://root.cern.ch/root/html/TStyle.html // gStyle->SetCanvasBorderMode(1); // -1 = down, 0 = no border, 1 = up gStyle->SetPadBorderMode(1); // -1 = down, 0 = no border, 1 = up // gStyle->SetFrameBorderMode(1); // -1 = down, 0 = no border, 1 = up

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Note that you can see what each style does here:
root.cern.ch/root/html/src/TStyl … tml#oryiQE

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Hello,

Thank you for your help. I am progressing.

First of all, in TStyle code I see that the styles are defined twice (in the constructor and in the Reset(…)). You might want to avoid this code duplication.

What I do now is :

TCanvas c;
c.Divide(2,2);
c.Modified();
// here I see nothing
gStyle->SetPadBorderMode(1);
c.UseCurrentStyle();
// here I see nothing, still
c.cd(1);
// here I see the selected pad

I am sorry if I overlook something, but I don’t find which parameter I have to set to see the border of all pads, as opposed to seeing only the border of the selected pad.

Thank you in advance for your help,
Barth

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Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it and indeed, this would achieve more or less what I want.
However I am still looking for the way of having a border around my pads. If I set the border mode for pads to 1, I expect to have a border. If there are none, should I consider it a bug. What do you think ?

Thank you
Barth