Index: trunk/psLib/src/image/psImage.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/psLib/src/image/psImage.c	(revision 2762)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/image/psImage.c	(revision 2879)
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
  *  @author Ross Harman, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.55 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2004-12-20 21:39:42 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.56 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2005-01-04 02:34:57 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -23,4 +23,5 @@
 #include "psError.h"
 #include "psImage.h"
+#include "psString.h"
 
 #include "psImageErrors.h"
@@ -146,4 +147,21 @@
 
     return psRegionAlloc(col0,col1,row0,row1);
+}
+
+char* psRegionToString(psRegion* region)
+{
+    char tmpText[256]; // big enough to store any region as text
+
+    if (region == NULL) {
+        psError(PS_ERR_BAD_PARAMETER_NULL, true,
+                PS_ERRORTEXT_psImage_REGION_NULL);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    snprintf(tmpText,256,"[%g:%g,%g:%g]",
+             region->x0, region->x1,
+             region->y0, region->y1);
+
+    return psStringCopy(tmpText);
 }