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How to create a new window having button associating with MPP templates?

frogconsultant

Dear All,

 I am starting using the 6.x virtuoso and I would like to improve my setup by having my custom MPP templates directly access through a separate window instead of accessing through the pull down menu. Is it possible to do it? Can someone point me to a starting script to create this new window?

Thanks in advance for your help. 

  •  I figure out I was not clear enough in my request.

      After creating a few handy MPP, I would to create a separate window where I could have access to these custom MPP directly through this window. This window will have mulitple button with the names of the MPP functions in order to directly select the MPP of interest without passing through the pull down menu.

    Let me know if you have any idea or suggestion.

  • That's not actually that easy. You could have something which built a form using techGetMPPTemplateNames() to find out the available templates  and presented this as a choice on a form. Then used an enter function to allow you to digitize the points (although you wouldn't be able to get it to rubberband quite the same way as the Create MPP form would), and finally use something like my CCSdrawMPPUsingTemplate function (or abDrawMPPUsingTemplate if you have that!) as described in http://support.cadence.com/wps/mypoc/cos?uri=deeplinkmin:ViewSolution;solutionNumber=11323850 to actually create the MPP.

    This seems to me as if all it is doing is exactly duplicating the functionality of the Create MPP form. Wouldn't it be simpler just to create a bindkey for leHiCreateMPP() ? Then you wouldn't have to access the menu. Or you could just use Alt-c-t to do this already (in IC61).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

     

  • Hi Frogconsultant What I understood from your question is basically it is a duplicate form of existing MPP form without a pull down menu and having only the MPP that you have created.There are several ways to do it, One suggestion I can give you If you have already created few MPP , then put them in .cdsinit file so that when cadence will be starting up those will be loaded. Now Create a form with multiple buttons having the proper MPP name as you want. For each button's callback you can write a function like this procedure(function(Multipartpath_Name) hiiSetCurrentForm('leRodMppForm) ; to select the MPP form in the background leRodMppForm->rodMPPTemplate->value = Multipartpath_Name ; to select the MPP from the list leHiCreateMPP() ; to draw the MPP );procedure Here Multipartpath_Name is a string variable which is the name of MPP mentioned during creation of the MPP Example: For each MPP button you can write callbacks like this function("MPP_M1_M2") function("MPP_M2_M3") , Please do remember that MPP_M1_M2 or MPP_M2_M3 , these names should be same as you have mentioned the MPP name during the creation of them because this name will choose the correct MPP template from the list. Hope It will solve your problem, if I have understood the question. If you have any more doubt in this please let me know. Thanks Amit

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