======================= Image::DS9 Version 0.13 ======================= NAME Image::DS9 - interface to the DS9 image display and analysis program DESCRIPTION Image::DS9 is an interface to the DS9 program developed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's High Energy Astrophysics R&D Group. DS9 is a flexible and feature laden image display and analysis program. While targeted at the astronomical community, it is versatile enough to be used with success by others. Image::DS9 is in a very embryonic state; it does not support all of DS9's features, and the API may change. It is being developed to interoperate with PDL. For details on DS9, including the source (and binaries for some platforms), please refer to http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/ DEPENDENCIES This module requires the IPC::XPA module to communicate with ds9. IPC::XPA is available from CPAN; it requires the XPA library available at http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/ It requires DS9 v2.1. Due to a change in the colormap XPA access point, it is not compatible with older versions of DS9. Sorry! INSTALLATION This package has been tested on Perl 5.6.0, and xpa 2.0.3. It has been tested on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 2.8. You will need to install IPC::XPA first. To compile, test and install Image::DS9, perl Makefile.PL make make test make install PLEASE NOTE! the tests will start up a DS9 in the background using system(). For some reason the first time the tests are run (and DS9 is started) the first test hangs after completion (at least on my system). Interrupting the test and running "make test" a second time succeeds. CHANGES See the Changes file for more details. 0.13 ---- Image::DS9 is now GPL'd. There is a large number of changes since the last public release, 0.09. Substantially more of DS9's capabilities are now available. There are a few incompatibilities: - DS9 v2.1 has changed the colormap XPA access point to cmap. Image::DS9 now required DS9 v2.1 - the constants TRUE and FALSE have been removed, due to Export problems. - renamed T_Grid, T_Column, and T_Row to T_grid, T_column, T_row COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA AUTHOR Diab Jerius ( djerius@cfa.harvard.edu )