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skill command to get the current library name

Meny Lea

Hi,

 

Im looking for a  skill command that can return the current library name that appear on the library manager

top left field - "Library".

without open any schematic/layout window ...

 

thx

 

meny

 

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Meny,

    There are two issues:

    1. The code needs to be loaded in two different places. The lmgr calls (the bit at the top of your code) needs to be in cdsLibMgr.il, whereas the two functions sort_by_date and MLsort need to be loaded from the .cdsinit. This is because the menu customization needs to be in the separate library manager process, whereas the callbacks are called in the main virtuoso process.
    2. The sort_by_date callback function needs to be written to expect 6 arguments - see the examples in the documentation (actually written by me from an application note I wrote on this back in IC441/IC442 timeframe!)

    Here's the modified sort_by_date function - if I did the separation of the code as above, and modified the function this way, it brings up the form and seeds the library based on the selected library:

    procedure( sort_by_date(menuName lib cell view file category)
      MLsort()
      printf("yes\n")
      unless(blankstrp(lib)
        ADsort->srcLib->value=lib
      )
      hiDisplayForm(ADsort)
    )

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Meny,

    There are two issues:

    1. The code needs to be loaded in two different places. The lmgr calls (the bit at the top of your code) needs to be in cdsLibMgr.il, whereas the two functions sort_by_date and MLsort need to be loaded from the .cdsinit. This is because the menu customization needs to be in the separate library manager process, whereas the callbacks are called in the main virtuoso process.
    2. The sort_by_date callback function needs to be written to expect 6 arguments - see the examples in the documentation (actually written by me from an application note I wrote on this back in IC441/IC442 timeframe!)

    Here's the modified sort_by_date function - if I did the separation of the code as above, and modified the function this way, it brings up the form and seeds the library based on the selected library:

    procedure( sort_by_date(menuName lib cell view file category)
      MLsort()
      printf("yes\n")
      unless(blankstrp(lib)
        ADsort->srcLib->value=lib
      )
      hiDisplayForm(ADsort)
    )

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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