AIPS NRAO AIPS HELP file for DRAWBOX in 31DEC24



As of Fri Apr 26 18:39:45 2024


DRAWBOX: Verb to draw Clean boxes on the TV graphics display

INPUTS

GRCHAN          0.0            8.0 Graphics channel to use.
NBOXES          0.0           50.0 Number of boxes to draw 0=>1
CLBOX         -1.0         8192.0  Pixel locations (X,Y) in
                                   image of lower left corner
                                   and upper right corner of
                                   NBOXES windows.
NFIELD         0.0          512.0  Field number to attach to box
                                   0 => get from image class
BOXFILE
                                   Name of boxfile from which
                                   boxes are to be read

          Uses TV cursor to select the image with which the
          BOXes are associated (if needed).

HELP SECTION

DRAWBOX
Type:  verb
Use:   To display current values in the adverb CLBOX in a TV graphics
       plane on top of a grey-scale image.  Alternatively, a
       non-blank BOXFILE will draw the boxes found in it.
Input adverbs:
  GRCHAN......Graphics channel to use.  0 -> 3.
  NBOXES......Number of boxes set before hand.  Must be > 0.
  CLBOX.......CLBOX(a,1:NBOXES) where a=1 is lower left x pixel, a=2
              is lower left y pixel, a=3 is upper right x pixel, and
              a=4 is upper y pixel.  For circular boxes, a=1 is -1,
              a=2 is the radius in pixels, a=3 is the center x pixel
              and a=4 is the center y pixel.  On input, all must have
              legitimate values for pixels in the image although not
              necessarily currently displayed on the (full screen)
              TV.
  NFIELD......Field number for boxes; < 1 or > 4096 => get from image
              class if possible, otherwise take 1.
  BOXFILE.....If not blank, the text file containing the boxes to be
              drawn.

EXPLAIN SECTION


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