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Issue with Deselecting Labels Having "Text Drawing" Layers in Layout

AR202509246930

Hi everyone,

I've implemented logic to deselect the labels VPW, VNW, VPERI, and VSS. While VPW and VNW are getting deselected correctly—likely because they contain layers like "nplssa and pplssa label"—I'm facing an issue with VPERI and VSS. These two labels have "text drawing" layers, and they are not getting deselected as expected.

Please find the code below 

Has anyone encountered this behavior before or have suggestions on handling "text drawing" layers differently?

Thanks in advance!


procedure(selectAllLayoutObjects()
let( (cv)
cv = geGetEditCellView()

;; Select instances
foreach(inst cv~>instances
unless((equal inst~>cellName "spacer")
geSelectFig(inst)
))
;; Select pins and labels
foreach(shape cv~>shapes
unless((or (equal shape~>pin~>term~>name "VPERI")
(equal shape~>pin~>term~>name "VSS")
(equal shape~>theLabel "VPW")
(equal shape~>theLabel "VNW")
(equal shape~>theLabel "VSS")
(equal shape~>theLabel "VPERI")
)
geSelectFig(shape)
))))


  • Andrew Beckett

    Can you select one of these labels (on text) only (ie nothing else selected) and then enter:

    car(geGetSelSet())~>??

    and share what it shows?

    Your post was a bit confusing because it talks about deselecting things, whereas in reality it is selecting everything except a set of objects meeting a criteria; it doesn’t deselect at all.

    Andrew

  • AR202509246930
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,
    Please find the car(geGetSelSet())~>?? response below



    car(geGetSelSet())~>??
    (db:0x6b8c252a cellView db:0x00c9009a objType "textDisplay"
    prop nil bBox
    ((0.04 1.395)
    (0.0915 1.405)
    ) children
    nil groupMembers nil isAnyInst nil
    isShape t matchPoints nil net
    nil parent db:0x6b8c252f pin nil
    purpose "drawing" textDisplays nil assocTextDisplays
    nil markers nil figGroup nil
    isUnshielded nil shieldedNet1 nil shieldedNet2
    nil layerName "text" layerNum 230
    lpp
    ("text" "drawing") connRoutes nil routeStatus
    "normal" owner db:0x6b8c239c associate db:0x6b8c239c
    font "roman" height 0.01 isDrafted
    t isOverbar nil justify "centerLeft"
    orient "R0" text "name" xy
    (0.04 1.4) isVisible t assocType "attrAssocType"
    isNameVisible nil isValueVisible t
    )

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to AR202509246930

    As I suspected, the "labels" are actually textDisplays in this case. A textDisplay object shows the value of an associate object/property - in this case (probably) the associate is the terminal and it's displaying the terminal name. To check it, you'd need to use:

    (and (equal shape~>objType "textDisplay") (equal (get shape~>associate shape~>text) "VSS"))

    or it might be simpler to just do:

    (and (equal shape~>objType "textDisplay") (member (get shape~>associate shape~>text) '("VSS" "VPERI" "VPW" "VNW")))

    to catch all of the allowed names in one statement - and then do something similar for labels.

    Andrew

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