Module irafdisplay

Open connection to the image display server

This is a factory function that returns an instance of the ImageDisplay
class for the specified imtdev.  The default connection if no imtdev is
specified is given in the environment variable IMTDEV (if defined) or
is "unix:/tmp/.IMT%d".  Failing that, a connection is attempted on the
/dev/imt1[io] named fifo pipes.

The syntax for the imtdev argument is <domain>:<address> where <domain>
is one of "inet" (internet tcp/ip socket), "unix" (unix domain socket)
or "fifo" (named pipe).  The form of the address depends upon the
domain, as illustrated in the examples below.

inet:5137                   Server connection to port 5137 on the local
                            host.  For a client, a connection to the
                            given port on the local host.

inet:5137:foo.bar.edu       Client connection to port 5137 on internet
                            host foo.bar.edu.  The dotted form of address
                            may also be used.

unix:/tmp/.IMT212           Unix domain socket with the given pathname
                            IPC method, local host only.

fifo:/dev/imt1i:/dev/imt1o  FIFO or named pipe with the given pathname.
                            IPC method, local host only.  Two pathnames
                            are required, one for input and one for
                            output, since FIFOs are not bidirectional.
                            For a client the first fifo listed will be
                            the client's input fifo; for a server the
                            first fifo will be the server's output fifo.
                            This allows the same address to be used for
                            both the client and the server, as for the
                            other domains.

The address field may contain one or more "%d" fields.  If present, the
user's UID will be substituted (e.g. "unix:/tmp/.IMT%d").

_default_imtdev

Value:

('unix:/tmp/.IMT%d', 'fifo:/dev/imt1i:/dev/imt1o')