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How to create personalized menu in virtuoso layout editor

AmitBiswas
Hi, I have written few scripts in skill language. I want group all the scripts together into a single menu in virtuoso layout editor. Like in the layout editor window there are several menus at the top containing multiple functions, I want to create my personalized menu in the layout editor window. I also want to put that script in the .cdsinit file, so that when cadence will be started the menus will be loaded automatically in the layout editor window like the other menus. Thanks in advance, Amit
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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