# Thstackpalettecolor¶

Palette coloring for histograms' stack is activated thanks to the options PFC (Palette Fill Color), PLC (Palette Line Color) and AMC (Palette Marker Color). When one of these options is given to THStack::Draw the histograms in the THStack get their color from the current color palette defined by gStyle->SetPalette(...). The color is determined according to the number of histograms.

In this example four histograms are displayed with palette coloring. The color of each histogram is picked inside the palette kOcean.

Author: Olivier Couet
This notebook tutorial was automatically generated with ROOTBOOK-izer from the macro found in the ROOT repository on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 04:02 PM.

In [1]:
auto hs = new THStack("hs","Stacked 1D histograms colored using kOcean palette");

gStyle->SetPalette(kOcean);


Create three 1-d histograms and add them in the stack

In [2]:
auto h1st = new TH1F("h1st","test hstack",100,-4,4);
h1st->FillRandom("gaus",20000);
hs->Add(h1st);

auto h2st = new TH1F("h2st","test hstack",100,-4,4);
h2st->FillRandom("gaus",15000);
hs->Add(h2st);

auto h3st = new TH1F("h3st","test hstack",100,-4,4);
h3st->FillRandom("gaus",10000);
hs->Add(h3st);


Draw the stack

In [3]:
hs->Draw("pfc nostack");

Info in <TCanvas::MakeDefCanvas>:  created default TCanvas with name c1


Draw all canvases

In [4]:
gROOT->GetListOfCanvases()->Draw()