Merge pull request #81 from mwcraig/simplify-save

Simplify saving image view as PNG
astropy · Jun 20, 2019 · ea9f722 · ea9f722
2 parents 83b20d2 + f39c617
commit ea9f722
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/astrowidgets/core.py b/astrowidgets/core.py
@@ -835,9 +835,11 @@ def scroll_pan(self):
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    # https://github.com/ejeschke/ginga/pull/665
     def save(self, filename):
         """
         Save out the current image view to given PNG filename.
         """
-        self._viewer.save_rgb_image_as_file(filename)
+        # It turns out the image value is already in PNG format so we just
+        # to write that out to a file.
+        with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
+            f.write(self._jup_img.value)