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Open Design in Assembler Test can cause overwriting of the design

Hi,

since some months I have this issue. In the past it was easy to simply open the design testbench in the schematic entry: Go to the Test inside meastro, RMB - Open Design.

However, now I got additional dialogs:

1. Open File: This gives me the option to select the design, like in which lib, which cell & view, also Read vs Edit mode.
This is ok!

2. Now I also get a 2nd pop-up window: "Already Exists" Do you want to overwrite it?
And this is very bad, because if you press Yes, then you will get now an empty schematic, i.e. your design will be efficiently deleted!

Is there a way to get rid of this 2nd window? Nobody ever wants to overwrite an existing design.

I checked my .cdsenv and .cdsinit for this behavior, but found nothing related to this.

Unfortunately, I cannot add a screenshot, but the second pop-up is really a very simple standard dialog. The Help button only brings up the standard help for ADE Assembler, no details.

In CIW I see this: *WARNING* Form 'deOpenForm', field 'deAccessMode': Bad value "overwrite".

Radio value must be one in the list of choices.

Bye Stephan

Andrew Beckett 6 months ago

Stephan,

Which sub-version are you using? I don't see this behaviour. I can see two env vars that might possibly make a difference, but even with setting these to the non-default values I don't see this. What do these return?

envGetVal( "adexl.gui" "openDesignInNewTab")
envGetVal( "adexl.gui" "openDesignAccessMode")

Andrew
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StephanWeber 6 months ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

We are using icadvm 20.1.500.22.

I get t and "w", good?

Actually I think write is a good default for me. And open the design in tab sounds good too.

Bye Stephan
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Andrew Beckett 6 months ago in reply to StephanWeber

Stephan,

I've not checked that version, but "w" means overwrite. I doubt you want that. Maybe "a" for "append" (aka edit mode).

Andrew
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StephanWeber 6 months ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Hi Andrew,

This is the solution to my problem:

envSetVal("adexl.gui" "openDesignAccessMode" 'cyclic "a")

Have it now in my .cdsinit.

I am happy, thanks!
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