SAOImage DS9 Version 3.0 Known Issues
MacOSX
MacOSX (darwin) requires the use of X11 for MacOSX 10.2 or 10.3.
Please refer to the README file. For more information on using SAOImage
DS9 with IRAF under MacOSX, please see The Macintosh IRAF
Web Page
Plot
There is a know bug with Plots and the Zoom function.
Bring up an analysis plot. Click left button to start the zoom function.
Without completing zoom (by clicking a button), go to FileClose.
Resulting error message will appear: An internal error has been
detected: invalid command line:".atmenu122g" menu and choose.
In certain cases when the data contains x errorbars, and there values
are quite large, compared to the data itself, and if displayed with errorbar
style 2, the rendering may become corrupted. In this case, only use style
1.
WCS
DS9 will display an incorrect WCS values and/or an invalid compass diagram
for some projections that include the new PV distortion keywords. These include
projecitons of type COD, COE, COO, COP, AIR, ARC, AZP, NCP, SIN, STG, SZP,
TAN, ZEA, and ZPN. We are aware of the problem and hope to have this corrected
next release.
IRAF
DS9 now supports IRAF's new IIS image display protocol. However, there is
one minor problem with the mscred task msczero. Before using
msczero, issue the following command in the cl:
cl> set disable_wcs_maps=""
cl> flpr