Need the X:Y co-ordinates of the point

Is this some University project? This sounds remarkably like https://www.cadence.com/Community/forums/p/12606/18010.aspx#18010 posted a few minutes ago.

Andrew.

 My response from another post:

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,

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.

Best regards,

Lawrence.

 No. its not the university project. we both are friends but without notice bharath also raised the issue. 

Please reply for this alone. Thanks Bracknell for pointing.

Rgds

Chin 

Hi Chin,

Haha... looks like you and Bharath is lookign for same coding. Probably is some assignment or task. You may refer to Bharath post.

 Regards,

How 

Hi

   Out of your 3 ways choosen one.Can u suggest there is any syntax problem in the follwoing code.

Please correct the code & post. 

cvid = geGetEditCellView()
coordlist = hiGetCommandPoint(cvid)

printf("co-ordinate is  = %d" coordlist)

 Rgds

Chin 

Did you actually try this? If  you try it, you'll get error messages which make it very clear. For example, when you try to pass a cellView id to hiGetCommandPoint, it says:

*Error* hiGetCommandPoint: argument #1 should be a window type (type template = "w") - db:202165292

If you read the manual for this function, that is also clear. So something like:

coordlist=hiGetCommandPoint()

would do it. However, this would need to be triggered by a bindkey, because if you just type it in the CIW, the cursor would have left the window, and hence it will return  nil.

The next problem is that you're trying to do use %d to print a list. %L would be better - %d will give an error because the return value of the function is not an integer.

So if you do:

procedure(MYgetPoint()
  let((coord)
    coord=hiGetCommandPoint()
    printf("Point was %L\n" coord)
  )
)

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>x" "MYgetPoint()")

It will work.

It may be your English, but people will be more willing to help if you appear to have tried to figure it out yourself, explaining what you tried, what the errors were and so on. As it is, your post looks more like "please do my work for me"...

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew

               Sure i will correct my way of approach.But sincerly I worked on it and got the errors then only posted to the community.

I  further worked on the script for the development purpose and got struck at a point.

The requirement is to pass the value "coord" to the   procedure(ABcursorPoint().

But error flasing as "*Error* eval: unbound variable - coord" . Please suggest any other way to approach the problem.

Rgds

Chin 

/**************************************************************
*                 Prints the x y coordinate                   *
* loaded in the variable in the coord                         *
***************************************************************/
cvid = geGetEditCellView()

procedure(MYgetPoint()
  let((coord)
    coord=hiGetCommandPoint()
    printf("%L\n" coord)
     )
)

procedure(ABcursorPoint()
         (leZoomToPoint cvid coord)
)


hiSetBindKey("Layout" "t" "MYgetPoint()")
hiSetBindKey("Layout" "Shift<Key>t" "ABcursorPoint()")
 

Thanks for your extra effort andrew..:)

  I have tried working on your suggestion,but i found other errors,..

\a MYgetPoint()
\i 8.71:64.43
\o (8.71 64.43)
\r t
\a ABcursorPoint()
\i 8.065:61.91
\o *** Error in routine leZoomToPoint:
\o Message: *Error* leZoomToPoint: argument #1 should be a window type (type template = "wl") - db:-2072629204

            I will take you throught the actual requirement behind this, so that you can guide us in a better way..The requirement goes like this,

1.We are trying to copy a xy co-ordinate by pressing a bindkey 't' from layout window 1 

2.With the help of this co-ordinate we are pointing to exactly same location in layout window   '2' by pressing a bindkey 'shift<t>'

         Please suggest us the correct way to proceed further..

Regards,

--Chin