Last modified: December 2024

URL: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/sherpa/ahelp/image_getregion.html
AHELP for CIAO 4.17 Sherpa

image_getregion

Context: visualization

Synopsis

Return the region defined in the image viewer.

Syntax

image_getregion(coord='')

Description

The regions defined in the current frame are returned.


Examples

Example 1

>>> image_getregion()
'circle(123,128,12.377649);-box(130,121,14,14,329.93142);'

Example 2

>>> image_getregion('physical')
'circle(3920.5,4080.5,396.08476);-rotbox(4144.5,3856.5,448,448,329.93142);'

PARAMETERS

The parameter for this function is:

Parameter Type information Definition
coord str, optional The coordinate system to use.

Return value

The return value from this function is:

region -- The region, or regions, or the empty string.


Bugs

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

See Also

confidence
get_conf, get_conf_results, get_covar, get_covar_opt, get_covar_results, get_covariance_results, get_int_proj, get_int_unc, get_proj, get_proj_opt, get_proj_results, get_projection_results, get_reg_proj, get_reg_unc
contrib
get_chart_spectrum, get_marx_spectrum
data
get_areascal, get_arf, get_arf_plot, get_axes, get_backscal, get_bkg, get_bkg_arf, get_bkg_chisqr_plot, get_bkg_delchi_plot, get_bkg_fit_plot, get_bkg_model, get_bkg_model_plot, get_bkg_plot, get_bkg_ratio_plot, get_bkg_resid_plot, get_bkg_rmf, get_bkg_scale, get_bkg_source, get_bkg_source_plot, get_coord, get_counts, get_data, get_data_contour, get_data_contour_prefs, get_data_image, get_data_plot, get_data_plot_prefs, 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_stat_info
info
get_default_id, list_stats
methods
get_draws, get_iter_method_name, get_iter_method_opt, get_method, get_method_name, get_method_opt
modeling
get_model, get_model_component, get_model_component_image, get_model_component_plot, get_model_plot, get_num_par, get_num_par_frozen, get_num_par_thawed, get_order_plot, get_par, get_pileup_model, get_response, get_source, get_source_component_image, get_source_component_plot, get_source_contour, get_source_image, get_source_plot, image_model, image_model_component, image_source, image_source_component
plotting
get_split_plot
psfs
get_psf, get_psf_contour, get_psf_image, get_psf_plot, image_kernel
statistics
get_chisqr_plot, get_delchi_plot, get_prior, get_sampler, get_stat, get_stat_name
utilities
get_analysis, get_rate
visualization
contour, contour_data, contour_model, contour_ratio, contour_resid, image_close, image_data, image_deleteframes, image_fit, image_open, image_ratio, image_resid, image_setregion, image_xpaget, image_xpaset