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Bindkeys in ADE Explorer/Assembler

crossi

I defined a custom function for ADE explorer. It works OK when called from CIW.

I assigned a bindkey for the function in ADE Explorer. But clicking on the key does nothing.

Just to test, I defined bindkeys for the same function in CIW and in Schematics.

Both work ok and the function does it work on Explorer when clicking over CIW or a schematic.

So: Do I need to do anything to enable bindkeys for Explorer ?

( virtuoso version 6.1.8-64b )

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Dear cross,

    crossi said:

    Just to test, I defined bindkeys for the same function in CIW and in Schematics.

    Both work ok and the function does it work on Explorer when clicking over CIW or a schematic.

    So: Do I need to do anything to enable bindkeys for Explorer ?

    Bindkeys are definitely available for the CIW and schematic windows. The On-line support article at URL:

    support.cadence.com/.../ArticleAttachmentPortal

    shows that the bindkey files:

    Layout.il Schematics.il Symbol.il TextEditor.il adexl.il 

    PcellIDE.il SkillIDE.il TechfileIDE.il adegxl.il verifier.il 

    are loaded from 

    <install_dir>/share/cdssetup/dfII/bindkeys 

  • in reply to FormerMember

    Continuing on...sorry..it forced me to login and posted my response before I was done...

    I am not sure if you have defined your bindkey in Assembler or Explorer. f you have not, from my quick search on On-line support, I might suggest you define it as a bindkey in those applications and then re-try to use your newly defined bindkey in either Assembler of Explorer. As an example, the commands to define a bindkey F5  in each application is:

    hiSetBindKey("explorer" "<Key>F5" "hiDeiconifyWindow(window(1)) && hiRaiseWindow(window(1))" )
    hiSetBindKey("assembler" "<Key>F5" "hiDeiconifyWindow(window(1)) && hiRaiseWindow(window(1))" )
    Did you define your bindkey in Assembler or Explorer when you tried to use it in those applications?
    Shawn
  • in reply to ShawnLogan

    Thanks !!

    The syntax you shared did the trick.

    Now, there seems to be a bug in the BindKey Editor I used in my first try:

    The Editor uses the string "ADE Explorer" instead of "explorer".

  • in reply to crossi

    Actually the editor shows both - which is a bit confusing. If you enable the "Show applications with no bindkeys defined" checkbox, it will also show "explorer" and "assembler". What I'm not sure about is why "ADE Explorer" and "ADE Assembler" show up since defining bindkeys for these seem to have no effect. I did a (very quick) search and didn't see this coming up before - might be worth raising it with customer support.

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    And as ADE Explorer comes at the top of the list, I did not get to see explorer down under.

    Thanks !, Andrew.

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