How to create personalized menu in virtuoso layout editor

 Hi Zfeng,

You can create a "menus" directory in your home directory, or current working directory, for example, and then have an appropriately named <tool>.menus file - this file can be used to reference the default menus file, for example load it in and then modify the structures in place, if you only needed a small alteration from the original.  Some menus are easier to do this way, in my opinion. Here is a brief example of changing the File->Exit item in the CIW menus using this method:

load(prependInstallPath("etc/tools/menus/ciw.menus"))

;; only when the ciwFilePulldown menu exists
when(pairp(ciwFilePulldown)
  ;; create a local variable to store the Exit item
  let( ((exitItem assoc('ExitItem caddr(ciwFilePulldown))))
  ;; replace the callback on the Exit item to be MYexit()
  ;; if the correct menu structure is found
    when(and(exitItem cddr(exitItem))
      setcar(cddr(exitItem) "MYexit()")
    )
  )
)

The file would be called "ciw.menus" and be in the menus directory as mentioned above.  This modifies the menu callback of the existing File -> Exit menu item such that the function "MYexit()" is called instead of the default callback.

I hope that this is helpful.

Lawrence.

 Hi Zfeng,

You can create a "menus" directory in your home directory, or current working directory, for example, and then have an appropriately named <tool>.menus file - this file can be used to reference the default menus file, for example load it in and then modify the structures in place, if you only needed a small alteration from the original.  Some menus are easier to do this way, in my opinion. Here is a brief example of changing the File->Exit item in the CIW menus using this method:

load(prependInstallPath("etc/tools/menus/ciw.menus"))

;; only when the ciwFilePulldown menu exists
when(pairp(ciwFilePulldown)
  ;; create a local variable to store the Exit item
  let( ((exitItem assoc('ExitItem caddr(ciwFilePulldown))))
  ;; replace the callback on the Exit item to be MYexit()
  ;; if the correct menu structure is found
    when(and(exitItem cddr(exitItem))
      setcar(cddr(exitItem) "MYexit()")
    )
  )
)

The file would be called "ciw.menus" and be in the menus directory as mentioned above.  This modifies the menu callback of the existing File -> Exit menu item such that the function "MYexit()" is called instead of the default callback.

I hope that this is helpful.

Lawrence.