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How to lock the cell placement

bharath2k4er
bharath2k4er over 16 years ago

Hi, 

can someone help in locking the placement of the Instance (should not be able to move the instance once i lock the position) in the virtuoso layout editor using skill..

It is equvivalent to this command SET_OBJECT_FIXED_EDIT(GET_SELECTION) 1 (1 means postion fixed, 0 means postion is notfixed).This command is available in the IC compiler (ICC tool). 

 

Thanks for your support,

Bharath. 

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    bharath2k4er over 16 years ago

    Thanks Derek .

    When i load the script, i got the following warning message. Should i need to  define the myFilterFunction? 

     *WARNING* Can't find skill filter function 'myFilterFunction'.

    I am expecting something like this,

    --> When i load my script it should find all the  instances

    -->It should lock the position of all the instances 

    -->If somebody tries to move the locked instances, it should pop up a warning message saying "Instance position is locked,Please unlock it to move"

    -->I should be able to unlock selected instances if necessary.

     

     
    Thanks,

    Bharath. 

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    bharath2k4er over 16 years ago

    Thanks Derek .

    When i load the script, i got the following warning message. Should i need to  define the myFilterFunction? 

     *WARNING* Can't find skill filter function 'myFilterFunction'.

    I am expecting something like this,

    --> When i load my script it should find all the  instances

    -->It should lock the position of all the instances 

    -->If somebody tries to move the locked instances, it should pop up a warning message saying "Instance position is locked,Please unlock it to move"

    -->I should be able to unlock selected instances if necessary.

     

     
    Thanks,

    Bharath. 

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