Remove horizontal line in canvas

[aleopold]

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Hi! Is it possible somehow to get rid of the automatically drawn line at y=0 that appears when doing for example

void horizontalLine() {
auto canvas = new TCanvas();
auto axis_hist = new TH1F(“”, “;x;y”, 1, 0, 1);
axis_hist->SetAxisRange(-2, 2, “Y”);
axis_hist->Draw();
canvas->Print(“horizontalLine.pdf”);
}

?

Thanks a lot,
Alex

PS: I saw this is discussed here, but not sure how these things relate under the hood.

[dastudillo]

That line is actually the histogram; since all the bins are empty (zero), the line is flat on that y value. You can “hide” it for instance with

axis_hist->Draw("*");

As the bins are empty, no markers are drawn.

[aleopold]

omg that should have been obvious to me, thanks a lot

mv to noob section pls ^^

[couet]

If your goal is to draw an empty frame with axis, you can use DrawFrame as explained here: ROOT: TPad Class Reference