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automatically run a routine when a menu item is invoked from CIW or schematic window

Hi,

Is it possible to use triggers to automatically run a skill function when a user invokes another skill function from a custom drop down menu.

I can do it hard way by modifying each custom function and adding the piece of code but was wandering if there is any auto trigger I can use to do this whenever someone use those functions. I looked into deRegUserTrigger but it works with 'viewType' (schematic, maskLayout etc) I want something similar for drop down menu items (which are also skill functions developed in house).

Thanks !

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Andrew Beckett over 12 years ago

Hi Vikash,

For the first item the code needs to traverse slider menus, so I altered the code to recursively all itself. See the example in the comments.

For the second, your menu is presumably not stored in a variable called ciwTestMenu - I'm guessing that you just guessed the name? Try typing hiGetBannerMenus(hiGetCIWindow()) to find out the menus in the CIW.

Regards,

Andrew.

/* CCFaddMenuTriggers.il

Author     A.D.Beckett
Group      Custom IC (UK), Cadence Design Systems Ltd.
Language   SKILL
Date       Apr 19, 2013 
Modified   
By         

Example code to add triggers on menu items. For example:

procedure(CCFdoThis() printf("going to do this\n"))
procedure(CCFdidThat() printf("have done that\n"))
CCFaddMenuTriggers(?menu ciwToolsMenu ?preTrigger "CCFdoThis()" ?postTrigger "CCFdidThat()")

Can specify either preTrigger or postTrigger or both.

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) CCFaddMenuTriggers.il 04/19/13.09:45:51 1.1

*/

/***********************************************************************
*                                                                      *
* CCFaddMenuTriggers(?menu menuVar [?preTrigger ""] [?postTrigger ""]) *
*                                                                      *
*   Modify the callbacks in a pulldown menu passed in to either call   *
*      a pre trigger function, a post trigger function, or both.       *
*                                                                      *
*   Slider menus are dealt with by this function recursively calling   *
*                               itself.                                *
*                                                                      *
***********************************************************************/

procedure(CCFaddMenuTriggers(@key menu (preTrigger "") (postTrigger ""))
  let((callback)
    foreach(menuItem hiGetMenuItems(menu)
      if(get(menu menuItem)->hiSubMenu then
        CCFaddMenuTriggers(
          ?menu get(menu menuItem)->hiSubMenu 
          ?preTrigger preTrigger
          ?postTrigger postTrigger
        )
      else
        callback=get(menu menuItem)->_itemCallback
        when(stringp(callback)
          hiSetMenuItemCallback(menu menuItem 
            strcat(preTrigger " " callback " " postTrigger)
          )
        )
      )
    )
    t
  )
)

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Andrew Beckett over 12 years ago

Hi Vikash,

For the first item the code needs to traverse slider menus, so I altered the code to recursively all itself. See the example in the comments.

Regards,

Andrew.

/* CCFaddMenuTriggers.il

Author     A.D.Beckett
Group      Custom IC (UK), Cadence Design Systems Ltd.
Language   SKILL
Date       Apr 19, 2013 
Modified   
By         

Example code to add triggers on menu items. For example:

procedure(CCFdoThis() printf("going to do this\n"))
procedure(CCFdidThat() printf("have done that\n"))
CCFaddMenuTriggers(?menu ciwToolsMenu ?preTrigger "CCFdoThis()" ?postTrigger "CCFdidThat()")

Can specify either preTrigger or postTrigger or both.

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) CCFaddMenuTriggers.il 04/19/13.09:45:51 1.1

*/

/***********************************************************************
*                                                                      *
* CCFaddMenuTriggers(?menu menuVar [?preTrigger ""] [?postTrigger ""]) *
*                                                                      *
*   Modify the callbacks in a pulldown menu passed in to either call   *
*      a pre trigger function, a post trigger function, or both.       *
*                                                                      *
*   Slider menus are dealt with by this function recursively calling   *
*                               itself.                                *
*                                                                      *
***********************************************************************/

procedure(CCFaddMenuTriggers(@key menu (preTrigger "") (postTrigger ""))
  let((callback)
    foreach(menuItem hiGetMenuItems(menu)
      if(get(menu menuItem)->hiSubMenu then
        CCFaddMenuTriggers(
          ?menu get(menu menuItem)->hiSubMenu 
          ?preTrigger preTrigger
          ?postTrigger postTrigger
        )
      else
        callback=get(menu menuItem)->_itemCallback
        when(stringp(callback)
          hiSetMenuItemCallback(menu menuItem 
            strcat(preTrigger " " callback " " postTrigger)
          )
        )
      )
    )
    t
  )
)

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