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Mapping a 'cv~>prop' array with any other array

shazzy

A set of selected pin labels are put into a list by doing :-

 

cv=geGetSelSet()

cv~>theLabel 

=>  ("A<0>" "A<1>" "A<2>")

 

Another array after some operation increments the set of these pin labels by 3, i.e. :-

 

a = ("A<3>" "A<4>" "A<5>")

 

If one wants to sequentially substitute every element of array 'a' into the cv~>theLabel array ( in order to change the pin labels in the layout view also ) then how to proceed ?

 

I tried the following things which arent working :-

1.A simple assignment operator

2. foreach mapcar

3. setof 

 

There is though one important finding which shows that when one label is selected, then even a simple assignment operator works i.e.

 

cv~>theLabel   =>    ("A<0>")

a                     =>   ("A<4>")

cv~>theLabel=a

cv~>theLabel   =>    ("A<4>")

 

but the challenge remains when multiple pin labels are selected

  •  You have a list of objects which must be processed separately. If you have the text selected, you get all the selected objects using txtObjs = geGetSelectedSet()

    Then process the individual objects in  a foreach loop:

    foreach( obj txtObjs
       when(obj~>objType == "label"
          obj~>theLabel = newLabel ))

    Ted

  • Hi Ted

    Thanks for the help  but when I tried ur following code, in that every label in the txtObjs array becomes equal to the newLabel.

     

    I tried this :- 

     

    A set of pins were selected   =>   A<0>  A<1>  A<2> 

    After which I wrote the following code

     

    txtObjs = geGetSelectedSet()            =>     (" a set of cv numbers")

    foreach(obj txtObjs

       when(obj~>objType == "label"
          obj~>theLabel = newLabel ))       =>     ("newLabel" "newLabel" "newLabel")

     

     

    What I want to do is that every element of the cv~theLabel array ( i.e.  ("A<0>" "A<1>" "A<2>" "nil") )  should  be mapped with the element of an array ' a '  (  i.e.  ("A<3>" "A<4>" "A<5>" "nil")  )  such that  finally the  cv~theLabel array becomes equal to  ( ("A<3>" "A<4>" "A<5>" "nil")  and the pin labels in the layout window changes accordingly.

  •  You supply the algorithm to map the original name to the new name and puts the new value into the variable newLabel inside the loop.

     

  • foreach((obj labelVal) txtObjs a
      when(obj~>objType=="label"
        obj~>theLabel=labelVal
      )
    )

    This assumes that txtObjs has the same number of entries as the list in variable a. By making the first argument to foreach a list of two variables, it will process both lists in parallel.

    Note: A bit of terminology here - "cv" normally means "cellView" and so it's rather confusing to call a list of objects "cv". These are lists not arrays (arrays are normally random access whereas lists are sequential).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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