//Setting alphanumeric labels //Author: Rene Brun void labels2() { const Int_t nx = 12; const Int_t ny = 20; char *month[nx] = {"January","February","March","April", "May","June","July","August","September","October", "November","December"}; char *people[ny] = {"Jean","Pierre","Marie","Odile", "Sebastien","Fons","Rene","Nicolas","Xavier","Greg", "Bjarne","Anton","Otto","Eddy","Peter","Pasha", "Philippe","Suzanne","Jeff","Valery"}; TCanvas *c1 = new TCanvas("c1","demo bin labels", 10,10,800,800); c1->SetGrid(); c1->SetLeftMargin(0.15); c1->SetBottomMargin(0.15); TH2F *h = new TH2F("h","test",nx,0,nx,ny,0,ny); for (Int_t i=0;i<5000;i++) { h->Fill(gRandom->Gaus(0.5*nx,0.2*nx), gRandom->Gaus(0.5*ny,0.2*ny)); } h->SetStats(0); for (i=1;i<=nx;i++) h->GetXaxis()->SetBinLabel(i,month[i-1]); for (i=1;i<=ny;i++) h->GetYaxis()->SetBinLabel(i,people[i-1]); h->Draw("text"); TPaveText *pt = new TPaveText(0.6,0.85,0.98,0.98,"brNDC"); pt->SetFillColor(18); pt->SetTextAlign(12); pt->AddText("Use the axis Context Menu LabelsOption"); pt->AddText(" \"a\" to sort by alphabetic order"); pt->AddText(" \">\" to sort by decreasing vakues"); pt->AddText(" \"<\" to sort by increasing vakues"); pt->Draw(); }