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annotate text to a schematic from a file every time the schematic is opened or refreshed

Hi all,

This might be an oddball request but I'm going to ask it anyway.

I have a text file containing a simple text message, which, say indicates the health of a circuit. This would be something that I generated myself, or a simulation wrote out at its conclusion.

Ideally, I want the contents of the text file to appear in a schematic view when I open it or do a descend-read from the top-level. This is a bit like back annotation I guess, which I know nothing about, but I think I just want something which reads a file and puts the text in the schematic automatically without any simulation being run. The name of the file would be stored in the schematic view somehow. Is this possible?

Thanks for reading!

Derek

Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago

Hi Derek,

You could do this by using deRegUserTriggers for schematic and defining a post-install trigger. This post-install trigger could then create a hilight set (using geCreateHilightSet) and then use geAddHilightLabel to add the label. This is not stored in the database and is just for display purposes.

I used a similar approach in How to interactively ignore devices and highlight ignored devices - although that code is reasonably complex as it gave the rest of the functionality too (the specific functionality in that code is now built-in since IC617, but it serves as an illustration how to do such things).

Regards,

Andrew
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DerekH over 4 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Thanks Andrew for your prompt reply. I'll take a look!

Regards,

Derek
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