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Layout XL: how to set default options for Selection Protection?

dontpanic

Hello! Is it possible to set somewhere the default options for the Selection Protection feature in Layout XL (the ones under "Edit->Select->Selection Protection Options...")?

Every time I open a new layout window I need to set these, which becomes cumbersome.

I tried looking on the .cdsenv settings but had no luck. In case there are no variables to control these, is there any way to set them through skill? For instance, I tried the following but it doesn't work:

procedure( mySetSelProtectionHighlight()
    geSetSelProtectionHighlightOptionForm()
    hiiSetCurrentForm('_geProtectOptionsForm)
    _geProtectOptionsForm->geHlWidth->value= "thin"
    hiFormDone(_geProtectOptionsForm)
);

...I'm interested to know if the latter approach for settings things via code would work, as it would allow us to automate many other things!

Thanks in advance,

Jorge.

  • Andrew Beckett

    Jorge,

    If you want to set the default, just use:

    envSetVal("graphic" "protectedObjHighlightHaloWidth" 'string "thin")

    This will affect any new windows (unless you've saved the default settings to the cellView or library at some point; I think the editor options or display options saving buttons may do this - I've not checked).

    If you want to change it for the current window, you'd set it as a property on the window object:

    hiGetCurrentWindow()->protectedObjHighlightHaloWidth="thin"

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • dontpanic

    Thanks a million, Andrew; that did the trick!
    P.S. I would have never guessed that the tool name for these settings is named "graphic" - kept looking under "layout" and "layoutXL"!
    Cheers,
    Jorge.

  • Andrew Beckett
    Jorge,

    Some things are left at the base graphics level rather than having an application-specific env var. As you can see here, this is "ge" (graphics editor) functionality (from the function call names) and has not been overridden to be specific to the layout editor.

    In practice you often need to check both, because we're not always entirely consistent about this! Sometimes it's obvious though - things like snap spacing is going to be different in each application, so that ends up with an application-specific env var which overrides the "graphic" env var.

    Regards,

    Andrew.
  • dontpanic
    Ah, good to know Andrew, thanks!
    Cheers,
    Jorge.

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