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Print Cursor co-ordinates

bharath2k4er

 Hi,

          I want to print the co-ordinates of the cursor pointer...for example: I have 5 clicks done in my layout. My output should be 5 co-ordinates written in a new file called "coord"

 

Pls give me some suggestions...

 

Thanks,

Bharath 

  •  There are a couple of ways to do this:

     enterPoints - This enter function can prompt for points and use the callback to enter the information into a file.

     hiGetCommandPoint - gets the location of the pointer at the last click, place in a loop and as the user clicks the points, the points will be returned.

    3 - there are 3 ways to do this:

     hiGetPoint - Gets the current xy location of the cursor. Does not need a mouse click.

  • Hi Bharath,

    In addition to what Ted has said, you will also probably want to use the outfile(), fprintf() and close()  SKILL functions for opening, writing to and closing the file respectively. Assuming that the variable coordlist contains the coordinates gathered from the layout, you might do something like the following:

    when(fptr = outfile("coord")
     foreach(coord coordlist
       fprintf(fptr "%L" coord)
     )
     close(fptr)
    ); when the file can be opened for writing

    Best regards,

    Lawrence.

  • Hi Bharath,

    I believe this script may helps.

     

    procedure( GetCursorCoord( @key

    (numbOfPoints 5)

    (fileName "CursorCoord.log"))

    let((messages pt fp)

     

    ;-----------------------------------

    ; Create a message to prompts

    ;-----------------------------------

    for( i 1 5

    messages = cons(sprintf(nil "Enter %d point" i) messages)

    )

     

    ;-----------------------------------

    ; Get enter points from user

    ;-----------------------------------

    points = enterPoints(

    ?prompts reverse(messages)

    ?wantPoints numbOfPoints

    )

     

    ;--------------------------------------

    ; Write the coordinate to a file

    ;--------------------------------------

    if( (fp = outfile(fileName)) then

    foreach( pt points

    fprintf(fp "Coord -> %L" pt)

    )

    close(fp)

    else

    warn("Failed to open file %L\n" fileName)

    )

    );let

    );proc

     

    Regards,

    How

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