Best regards,
I am sorry for silly question but I am stuck 
I have scattering plot TH2F, and I am trying to get projection of data on axis.
I open .root file in ROOT Object Browser (v 5.24.03), open my canvas with plot.
Right click on it, choose ProjectionX, set inputs as(first 3 as default):
name _px
firstybin 0
lastybin -1
option d
But it always returns empty canvas? I tried to input various numbers for bin, tried also ProfileX and so on, but it always returns empty, Entries 0( the original plot of course has data points).
What am I doing wrong?
Thanx to anyone reading this 
Edit: I added the file.
example.root (557 KB)
Hello,
the problem is that what you have in the root file is not a TH2F, but a canvas.
Just try this in your root prompt line to check:
//Create a TH2F
TH2F hh("hh","hh",10,0,10,10,0,10);
//Fill four point to test
hh.Fill(1,3);
hh.Fill(1,4);
hh.Fill(3,3);
hh.Fill(3,4);
//Draw
hh.SetMarkerStyle(2);
hh.Draw();
Then it should work on the projection you mentioned(work for me!).
And when you try to save something in a root file, you should save the object, not the canvas.
Because you cannot do much things on a canvas.
What I mean is like:(following the commands above, type below things)
//Write hh into a root file
TFile f("myroot.root","recreate");
hh.Write();
Then try to open this root file in TBrowser, look at the icon shown, you should see that the object saved in the root file is not a canvas, but a histogram. Then you can also do what you said on the saved histogram.
Regards,
YH
Thank you a lot 
I am doing this for a seminar, and my mentor gave me data file like this. Did I understand well that by using this file I can’t make projections?
Hello,
it turns out to be still possible.
I found this post being quite related, you may want to check this out:
root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk04/2633.html
However, if not knowing the name of the original histogram, this won’t work.
I am trying to find how to get the name of the histogram.
Regards,
YH
Hello,
although there are many documents on the web showing this to be possible, the attempts I made are in vain.
However, it turns out that the following piece of code can extract the points in the canvas.
As a work-around, you can try use these output to fill a 2D histogram.
If you do not know how to do, I already made one in the attachment.
{
TFile ff("example.root");
TCanvas *c2 = (TCanvas*)ff.Get("c1");
TList *ll = c2->GetListOfPrimitives();
ll->Print();
}
Maybe you can find a better solution!
Also, the link below will be very helpful in learning TPad(TCanvas): (I learn a lot from this, too!)
root.cern.ch/download/doc/ROOTUs … 09s03.html
out.root (323 KB)
Hello,
I just found a much easier way to solve the case:
1.Open the canvas and right click on the points (you will see the object is a TGraph named “Graph”)
2.Press ‘saveas’ in the menu
3.In the filename part, write “mygraph.root” (or whatever name you like.)
4.Then you get a root file storing a TGraph instead of a TCanvas.
When it is being plotted, it’s originally a TGraph named “Graph”, not a TH2F. So previous attempt were in vain. If modify the previous code to the following, it will work:
{
TFile ff("example.root");
TCanvas *c2 = (TCanvas*)ff.Get("c1");
TGraph *gg = c2->GetPrimitive("Graph");
}
Only now I saw the previous post Thank you, I will try that now.
Hello,
I am lost a bit with the instructions now, from where on do I get file where I can ProjectX?
I get .root file with “Graph”, what then?
Or if you could briefly explain/copy code on how you got file.out root attached above?
{
TFile *f = TFile::Open("example.root");
TCanvas *c1 = 0; f->GetObject("c1", c1);
c1->Draw();
TGraph *g = ((TGraph *)(c1->GetPrimitive("Graph")));
TH2F *h = ((TH2F *)(c1->GetPrimitive("htemp")));
TPaveText *p = ((TPaveText *)(c1->GetPrimitive("TPave")));
TString h_x_title, h_y_title;
h_x_title = h_x_title +
p->GetLine(0)->GetTitle() + ";" +
h->GetXaxis()->GetTitle() + ";" +
"number of events";
h_y_title = h_y_title +
p->GetLine(0)->GetTitle() + ";" +
h->GetYaxis()->GetTitle() + ";" +
"number of events";
Double_t xmin = h->GetXaxis()->GetXmin();
Double_t xmax = h->GetXaxis()->GetXmax();
Double_t ymin = h->GetYaxis()->GetXmin();
Double_t ymax = h->GetYaxis()->GetXmax();
Int_t n_x = 1000;
Int_t n_y = 1000;
TH1F *h_x = new TH1F("h_x", h_x_title, n_x, xmin, xmax);
TH1F *h_y = new TH1F("h_y", h_y_title, n_y, ymin, ymax);
for (Int_t i = 0; i < (g->GetN()); i++) {
h_x->Fill( (g->GetX())[i] );
h_y->Fill( (g->GetY())[i] );
}
TCanvas *c2 = new TCanvas("c2", "c2");
c2->Divide(1,2);
c2->cd(1);
gPad->SetLogy();
h_x->Draw();
c2->cd(2);
gPad->SetLogy();
h_y->Draw();
c2->cd(0);
}
