SKILL GUI

Here is a brief outline, hopefully the manual for some of the functions involved will help you fill in the details.

;; create a form.  This is a description of what widgets you will have and how they are laid out.  There are different

;; styles for how you control arrangement.  I'll show more or less how to do it with layouts.

myForm = hiCreateVerticalBoxLayout('myForm 

      ?items list(

            hiCreateStringField(?name 'countField ?prompt "Enter a Number" ?value "" ?defValue "10" ?callback "myCB('count)" ?editable t)

            hiCreateBooleanButton(?name 'enableField ?buttonText  "Enable something" ?value nil ?defVale nil ?callback "myCB('enable)")

            ;; others may be hiCreateIntField(), hiCreateFloatField(), hiCreateButton()

            hiCreateReportField(

                 ?name 'pinsField

                 ?title "Pin results"

                 ?titleAlignment 'center ;; 'left, 'center, 'right.

                 ?headers list(

                       list("Pin Name" 100 'left 'string t)

                       list("Pin Direction" 100 'left 'string t)

                       list("Signal Type" 100 'left 'string t)

                 )

                ?choices nil

                ?callback nil

            ) ; report

        ); items

) ; form

;; create the form from the layout

hiCreateLayoutForm( 'myForm

?buttonLayout 'Close
?initialSize list(600, 800)
?minSize list(w, 400)
?maxSize list(2000, 5000)
?sizePolicy 'expanding
)

;; add tooltips

myForm->countField->hiToolTip = "some tooltip"

;; actually display it

hiDisplayForm('myForm)

Hope this gets you moving in the right direction.  If you look up hiCreateBoxVerticalLayout that will get you in the right section of the manual.

Here is a brief outline, hopefully the manual for some of the functions involved will help you fill in the details.

;; create a form.  This is a description of what widgets you will have and how they are laid out.  There are different

;; styles for how you control arrangement.  I'll show more or less how to do it with layouts.

myForm = hiCreateVerticalBoxLayout('myForm 

      ?items list(

            hiCreateStringField(?name 'countField ?prompt "Enter a Number" ?value "" ?defValue "10" ?callback "myCB('count)" ?editable t)

            hiCreateBooleanButton(?name 'enableField ?buttonText  "Enable something" ?value nil ?defVale nil ?callback "myCB('enable)")

            ;; others may be hiCreateIntField(), hiCreateFloatField(), hiCreateButton()

            hiCreateReportField(

                 ?name 'pinsField

                 ?title "Pin results"

                 ?titleAlignment 'center ;; 'left, 'center, 'right.

                 ?headers list(

                       list("Pin Name" 100 'left 'string t)

                       list("Pin Direction" 100 'left 'string t)

                       list("Signal Type" 100 'left 'string t)

                 )

                ?choices nil

                ?callback nil

            ) ; report

        ); items

) ; form

;; create the form from the layout

hiCreateLayoutForm( 'myForm

?buttonLayout 'Close
?initialSize list(600, 800)
?minSize list(w, 400)
?maxSize list(2000, 5000)
?sizePolicy 'expanding
)

;; add tooltips

myForm->countField->hiToolTip = "some tooltip"

;; actually display it

hiDisplayForm('myForm)

Hope this gets you moving in the right direction.  If you look up hiCreateBoxVerticalLayout that will get you in the right section of the manual.

Dear Pedro P,

In addition to drdanmc's very helpful answer, the following Cadence On-line support URL:

https://support.cadence.com/apex/ArticleAttachmentPortal?id=a1Od0000002JdnmEAC&pageName=ArticleContent

contains links to a SKILL programming tutorial (in both PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat formats) as well as a tar file containing its lab exercises.

Maybe you know this much about SKILL and its use in the Cadence tools already, but I was not sure based on your request and thought I should at least pass it along...

Shawn