image_getregion

Synopsis

Returns a region description from ds9.

image_getregion()

Description

Returns a region description from the imager - by default, ds9. The image_getregion() function accepts no arguments and returns as a string a description of all regions drawn in the current frame.

Example

sherpa> reg = image_getregion()

A description of the current region is returned, and assigned to a variable.

Bugs

See the bugs pages on the Sherpa website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.

See Also

confidence

get_conf, get_covar, get_int_proj, get_int_unc, get_proj, get_reg_proj, get_reg_unc

contrib

get_chart_spectrum

data

get_areascal, get_arf, get_arf_plot, get_axes, get_backscal, get_bkg, get_bkg_plot, get_bkg_scale, get_coord, get_counts, get_data, get_data_plot, get_dep, get_dims, get_error, get_exposure, get_grouping, get_indep, get_quality, get_rmf, get_specresp, get_staterror, get_syserror, load_image, pack_image, unpack_image

filtering

get_filter

fitting

calc_stat_info, get_fit, get_stat_info

info

get_default_id, list_stats

methods

get_draws, get_iter_method_name, get_iter_method_opt, get_method

modeling

get_model, get_model_component, get_model_component_image, get_model_component_plot, get_model_plot, get_num_par, get_order_plot, get_par, get_pileup_model, get_response, get_source, get_source_component_image, get_source_component_plot, image_model, image_model_component, image_source, image_source_component

plotting

get_split_plot

psfs

get_kernel, get_psf, image_kernel

statistics

get_chisqr_plot, get_delchi_plot, get_prior, get_sampler, get_stat

utilities

get_analysis, get_rate

visualization

contour, contour_data, contour_model, contour_ratio, contour_resid, get_ratio, get_resid, image_close, image_data, image_deleteframes, image_fit, image_open, image_ratio, image_resid, image_setregion, image_xpaget, image_xpaset