Interactive Data Selection Controls

PyQtGraph includes graphics items which allow the user to select and mark regions of data.

Linear Selection and Marking

Two classes allow marking and selecting 1-dimensional data: LinearRegionItem and InfiniteLine. The first class, LinearRegionItem, may be added to any ViewBox or PlotItem to mark either a horizontal or vertical region. The region can be dragged and its bounding edges can be moved independently. The second class, InfiniteLine, is usually used to mark a specific position along the x or y axis. These may be dragged by the user.

2D Selection and Marking

To select a 2D region from an image, pyqtgraph uses the ROI class or any of its subclasses. By default, ROI simply displays a rectangle which can be moved by the user to mark a specific region (most often this will be a region of an image, but this is not required). To allow the ROI to be resized or rotated, there are several methods for adding handles (addScaleHandle, addRotateHandle, etc.) which can be dragged by the user. These handles may be placed at any location relative to the ROI and may scale/rotate the ROI around any arbitrary center point. There are several ROI subclasses with a variety of shapes and modes of interaction.

To automatically extract a region of image data using an ROI and an ImageItem, use ROI.getArrayRegion. ROI classes use the affineSlice function to perform this extraction.

ROI can also be used as a control for moving/rotating/scaling items in a scene similar to most vetctor graphics editing applications.

See the ROITypes example for more information.