How to create personalized menu in virtuoso layout editor

 Thanks,

      yes, we can do that and i am sure  "maskLayout"  can be replaced by "schematic", and now , i want to add  a menu in analog environment , so which argument should i use?

For ADE, you could use  "analogArtist-schematic", however this will only work when you start ADE from the schematic. If you open it from the CIW, or by loading a state directly (e.g. from the library manager), then it will not trigger. The issue is that ADE is not really an editor of a view in the same sense as maskLayout or schematics, and so the Design Editor (i.e. de) functionality doesn't come into play.

The right way to do ADE customization is to use menus files. Here's one way:

http://support.cadence.com/wps/mypoc/cos?uri=deeplinkmin:ViewSolution;solutionNumber=11286092

The other way to do it might be to use the sessInitTrigFunc cdsenv setting:

http://support.cadence.com/wps/mypoc/cos?uri=deeplinkmin:ViewSolution;solutionNumber=11524352

This sessInitTrigFunc was added in IC5141 in 5.10.41.500.5.124 and is also in IC612 onwards (it was added in an IC611 hotfix, strictly speaking), in September 2008.

Regards,

Andrew.

 Hi Andrew,

     why i can't login  the link you writed?

Regards,

zfeng

Zfeng,

You'll need a Cadence Online Support account (this requires you to be a customer with a maintenance contract). You can register via http://support.cadence.com - you'd need access to your License server hostid to do it (so that we can identify which customer you are). If you're at a European university and accessing your software via Europractice, you'd need to contact Europractice (I believe they have the means to create "light" accounts which allow read access to solutions etc, but not submit service requests - you have to do that via Europractice).

Regards,

Andrew.

 hi Andrew,

     thanks, have a good day!

Regards,

zfeng

 Hi Andrew,

     do you mean that we can't load the user defined menus in ADE by modifying the .cdsinit file directly?

regards,

zfeng

Hi Zfeng,

No, I didn't say that. You can either use a menus file (which wouldn't be done via the .cdsinit), or using:

 envSetVal("asimenv.startup" "sessInitTrigFunc" 'string "MYinitSession")

which could be added  in your .cdsinit (along with a function defined MYinitSession which could add the menus, I guess).

Regards,

Andrew.

 Hi Andrew,

     I have found there are many *.menus in folder(tools/menus), but I think these are all system bulit in and only can be read, so if the user want to create their own menu file, where to loacate it? in the work directory ? which one is the best reference manul about this?

Regards,

zfeng 

 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 Lawrence,

     I have got the brief idea, and i am still confused about some tips

1, you just modify an exit function in the user "ciw.menus" in the above example, i want to know if the other functions will be saved/reserved as the default function in the ciw menus.

2. Can  the "MYexit()" function be defined in other file skill file?

3.how to check wether user's menus(xxx.menus) is working well, i mean that check it in CIW 

4. i want to add a user menu in analogArtist simulation window, but i'm not clear about which viewType should i use to register my menu trigger deRegUserTriggers()

5. if i change the analogArtist menu by modifying the simui.menus(is it the menus for analogArtist simulation window), i want to add a menu item under the Tools menu(below the parametric analysis), what i need to do is just add my menu item name and callback function in the Tools section in the simui.menus. by the way, do i need to create this menu item before i add it or not?

sorry for askiing so many question!

Regards,

zfeng