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the color of instance label in symbol editor

zssfred

Recently I found some instance labels were in color white.  But if I create a new one, the color is yellow. And I haven't change system LPP. In default, the instance label uses color yellow. If I change the type of white label  to other than "instance label" and then change it back to "instance label" again, the color changes to yellow and never back to white. How could this be possible?

Thanks.

Fred

  • zssfred

    It shows choice as unknown like below:

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to zssfred

    I suspect that somebody has manually changed the layer purpose they are on. You can either select the label and in the CIW enter:

    geGetSelSet()~>lpp

    and note what it says. Or use geQuerySelSet() and it will show you the layer they are on. The "Choice" setting on the property editor is merely a mapping to give convenient names for some of the more common layer-purpose pairs used on symbols, but in practice they can be anything you like.

    Andrew.

  • zssfred
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Sorry for the late reply for I am too busy in the setup. Andrew, big thank for your always replying and helping. Yes, we get the same idea:

    first run on white color:
    lab = car(geGetSelSet())
    db:0x25cbf1a8
    lab~>lpp
    ("text" "drawing")
    set it to yellow color :
    lab~>lpp=list("instance" "label")
    ("instance" "label")
    set it back to white color :
    lab~>lpp=list("text" "drawing")
    ("text" "drawing")
    Because I don't know the history of this symbol, another possibility is this symbol was not generated on current virtuoso platform and was generated on lpp-customized virtuoso platform.
    It may be copied from other site.
    Thank  you so much!
    Fred

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