On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Peter W. Draper
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> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, David Berry wrote:
>
>> On 6 June 2012 21:57, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> How easy would it be for GAIA to be able to read in an STC-S region
>>> description and overlay it on an image? GAIA can already do that for a
>>> CUPID catalogue but we've just written a support tool for the surveys
>>> that will download the survey regions as a single STC-S description
>>> and it would be nice if GAIA could plot it (I know that ARDPLOT can do
>>> this already with a AST version of the object).
>>
>>
>> In fact ARDPLOT can do it with the original STC-S description as well
>> as with the corresponding AST object.
>
>
> I've made a start and have added a method to the rtdimage type that plots an
Fantastic. Does that mean we can display a STC-S region from the
socket interface?
> STC-S description over the image. Still needs a toolbox to back it up.
> How exactly did you plan to use this?
>
Easiest possible way - a popup asking for the filename and then
displaying it. I suppose the issue is whether the toolbox should allow
regions to be enabled and disabled and whether the toolbox should
support multiple regions.
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Tim Jenness
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