Saving characteristic of TGraph2D (like axis title)

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Hi,
I would like to save TGraph2D objects on a TFile. But when some members of my TGraph2D are not saved. Specificaly title, axis specifications (axis title, title offset, color etc.).

In the TGraph2D defintion I see :

TH2D* fHistogram !2D histogram of z values linearly interpolated

And I think this is the cause of my troubles. fHistogram holds a lot specifications which interest me. But these specifications are not saved.

How can I restore easily my TGraph2D ?

I can save the fHistogram member myself, and call TGraph2D::SetHistogram() after having reading a TGraph object, but
- what is the cost in memory ?
- Is there anythings to do after and/or before TGraph2D::SetHistogram() ?

Thanks for your attention,

Pierre
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Olivier will investigate this problem once back from holidays.

Rene

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You said that the TGraph2D title is not saved, but the following example shows it is:

void graph2dsave()
{
   TCanvas *c = new TCanvas("c","Graph2D example",0,0,700,600);
   gfile = new TFile("graph2d.root","RECREATE","Graph2D file");
 
   Double_t x, y, z, P = 6.;
   Int_t np = 300;
 
   TGraph2D *dt = new TGraph2D();
   dt->SetTitle("a simple 2D graph");
 
   TRandom *r = new TRandom();
 
   for (Int_t N=0; N<np>Rndm(N))-P;
      y = 2*P*(r->Rndm(N))-P;
      z = (sin(x)/x)*(sin(y)/y)+0.2;
      dt->SetPoint(N,x,y,z);
   }
 
   dt->Draw("p0 tri");
 
   gfile->cd(); dt->Write();
}

execute the example and restart ROOT. Then do:

root [0] TFile g("graph2d.root");
root [1] Graph2D->Draw("tri")"

You’ll se that the title is the one set in the macro.

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Hi,

thanks you for your help, I know the title of a TGraph2D is saved, but I want the axis titles to be saved too (with their offset, color …).

I send you an anormaly thing which appears when I try to do a dt->GetXaxis() after the TGraph2D is filled. In fact, if I doesn’t try to use GetXaxis(), there is no problems, but if I use GetXaxis() a “: problem setting view” appears. (I send 2 screen shoot which show that).

I don’t know if this is a problem which come from my installation, or if it is that I musn’t use GetXaxis() here.

Can you help me again ?

thanks a lot,
Strato

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For TGraph2D the data member holding the underlaying histogram has been explicitely declared as not persistant in TGraph2D.h:

   TH2D       *fHistogram;   //!2D histogram of z values linearly interpolated

the character “!” starting the comment means that …

That’s not the case for TGraph.

So, for TGraph2D, all the attributes (like the axis titles) depending on the underlaying histogram (fHistogram) will not be saved. I guess the choice was made to not save this histogram because of size issues. This histogram can be quite big.

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Hi,
thank you for replying so fast :slight_smile:

My original question was :

thanks again

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The cost in memory should be close to a 2D matrix NPXxNPY. Where NPX and NPY are the number of bins along the X and Y axis.

There is nothing special to do after SetHistogram().