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How to open two layouts, copy them into a third and save

I'm writing a script that will run automatically using icfb -nograph -replay script.il. I need it to open three layouts, and copy all the contents of two of the layouts into the third, then save it, close and exit.

I was originally going to use (procedure and let's omitted):
      window1 = dbOpenCellViewByType(Dir Name1 "layout" "" "w")
      window2 = dbOpenCellViewByType(Dir Name2 "layout" "" "r")
      geSelectAll()
      geCopySelSet()
      hiSetCurrentWindow(window1)
    mouseAddPt()
      dbClose(window2)
      window3 = dbOpenCellViewByType(Dir Name3 "layout" "" "r")
      geSelectAll()
      geCopySelSet()
      hiSetCurrentWindow(window1)
      mouseAddPt() ;
      dbClose(window3)
      dbSave(window1)
      dbClose(window1)
However, dbOpenCellViewByType opens it in memory but doesn't open a window, so the geSelectAll() won't work. geOpen() just opens a design, but not a window- should I use hiOpenWindow + geOpen?

Also, the object returned by dbOpenCellViewByType doesn't match what hiSetCurrentWindow wants. And, I'm not sure how to end the geCopySelSet command- it wants a location to put the copied objects and there's no user to click the mouse.

Thanks for any help

Tom Spargo

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kbhow over 16 years ago

Hi Tom,
dbOpenCellViewByType will only open the cell view in virtual memory. But if you wish to run your script in virtuoso -nograph mode, dbOpenCellViewByType is the best to use rathen than using geOpen since u doesn't not require to open the window to do the work.
In the other hand, you should not use interactive function which require any input from user in virtouso -nograph since the function is require an input from user.
To copy all contents of layout1 and layout2 to layout3, you can try this:
Cv_dest = dbOpenCellViewByType(libName cellName viewName "maskLayout" "w")
Cv_src1 = dbOpenCellViewByType(lib1 cell1 view1 "maskLayout" "r")
Cv_src2 = dbOpenCellViewByType(lib2 cell2 view2 "maksLayout" "r")
foreach( fig geSelectAllFig(Cv_src1)
dbCopyFig(fig Cv_dest list(0:0 "R0" 1.0)))
);foreach
foreach( fig geSelectAllFig(Cv_src1)
dbCopyFig(fig Cv_dest list(0:0 "R0" 1.0)))
);foreach
dbSave(Cv_dest)
dbClose(Cv_dest)
dbClose(Cv_src1)
dbClose(Cv_src2)

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kbhow over 16 years ago

Hi Tom,
dbOpenCellViewByType will only open the cell view in virtual memory. But if you wish to run your script in virtuoso -nograph mode, dbOpenCellViewByType is the best to use rathen than using geOpen since u doesn't not require to open the window to do the work.
In the other hand, you should not use interactive function which require any input from user in virtouso -nograph since the function is require an input from user.
To copy all contents of layout1 and layout2 to layout3, you can try this:
Cv_dest = dbOpenCellViewByType(libName cellName viewName "maskLayout" "w")
Cv_src1 = dbOpenCellViewByType(lib1 cell1 view1 "maskLayout" "r")
Cv_src2 = dbOpenCellViewByType(lib2 cell2 view2 "maksLayout" "r")
foreach( fig geSelectAllFig(Cv_src1)
dbCopyFig(fig Cv_dest list(0:0 "R0" 1.0)))
);foreach
foreach( fig geSelectAllFig(Cv_src1)
dbCopyFig(fig Cv_dest list(0:0 "R0" 1.0)))
);foreach
dbSave(Cv_dest)
dbClose(Cv_dest)
dbClose(Cv_src1)
dbClose(Cv_src2)

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