How to create personalized menu in virtuoso layout editor

Hi Amit,

There are a couple of ways to approach this, you can either define menu items via a menus file, i.e. the layEdit.menus in this case, which would reside in your ./menus/ or ~/menus directory, or you can create the menus and add them via SKILL.  Here's a brief example of the bits that you might need for that approach:

procedure(AmitAddMenu(args)
  let( ((win args->window) item1 item2 menu)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items
    menu = hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2))
    ;; insert this menu as the last menu
    hiInsertBannerMenu(win menu length(hiGetBannerMenus(win))
  );let
); procedure
;; create a user postinstall trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil nil 'AmitAddMenu)

You might need to add code to check if the menu is already present, but hopefully this framework gives you an idea of how to do it.

Regards,

Lawrence.

Hi Amit,

There are a couple of ways to approach this, you can either define menu items via a menus file, i.e. the layEdit.menus in this case, which would reside in your ./menus/ or ~/menus directory, or you can create the menus and add them via SKILL.  Here's a brief example of the bits that you might need for that approach:

procedure(AmitAddMenu(args)
  let( ((win args->window) item1 item2 menu)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items
    menu = hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2))
    ;; insert this menu as the last menu
    hiInsertBannerMenu(win menu length(hiGetBannerMenus(win))
  );let
); procedure
;; create a user postinstall trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil nil 'AmitAddMenu)

You might need to add code to check if the menu is already present, but hopefully this framework gives you an idea of how to do it.

Regards,

Lawrence.