How to create two or three key strokes bindkeys

Understood ! So now to get it back to whatever it was before initialising the code, I have to re invoke virtuoso. Right ?  or Is there any other alternative other than re-invoking ?

You can just re-load the standard bind keys file. Either:

load(ddGetStartup("dfII/bindkeys/Layout.il"))

or:

load(prependInstallPath("samples/local/leBindKeys.il"))

That's assuming you are using the "out of the box" bindkey definitions. The top function (with ddGetStartup) would work if you've put a dfII/bindkeys/Layout.il further up your "Cadence Search File" path, but if you've loaded some other custom bind keys from  your .cdsinit you'd need to locate that and re-load it.

Andrew.

Ok Andrew. Thanks again

is there any recent revisions?  I cant get it to work

Hmm, something got messed up in the formatting on the forum site, and so some of the code where the bind keys were being formed got screwed up - I suspect the <Key> parts were being confused as HTML. I copied the code from the forum, and when I tried to initialise:

abSeqBindKey->initBindKeys("Layout")

I got loads of messages like this:

*WARNING* Invalid bindkey key string: Shiftt

Anyway, I've re-uploaded the code (I replaced it in the post above) and now it should be OK. I'm assuming you kept the .ils suffix in the file, that you'd loaded it, and you called the abSeqBindKey->initBindKeys("Layout") function to initialise everything?

Let me know if that doesn't fix your problem - and if it doesn't, please describe what you've done, and what happens... the code itself hasn't needed changing in 11 years; I just tested it using IC6.1.8 ISR15 (using the samples in the comments at the top of the code).

Andrew.

I think I am missing something basic.  First the get, set and reset functions wouldnt load, it errored saying they were internal functions and couldnt be re-defined.  I appended an _f to the end of them and their respective calls to get it to load. It does load now but nothing seems to have changed in my environment.....ie, all my keys operate as initially defined at startup

It sounds as if you did not keep the file suffix as “.ils”. That is important - otherwise it won’t get loaded using SKILL++ semantics and the local functions will clash with existing global functions. You should not need to rename any function to make this work. What did you call the file name you stored the code in?

Andrew

mbind.ils

I put everything back as you had it and correct extension. it loads fine but still no change

Well, if I either give the file the .il suffix, or omit the let() around everything in the code, then I get an error like this when loading:

*Error* define: can't redefine an internal function - reset
*Error* load: error while loading file - "~/shared/xfer/mbind.ils" at line 161

Are you just loading the file with load("mbind.ils") ? Or are you copying and pasting the code into the CIW (which won't work)?

Please give an exact transcript of what you're doing - it doesn't make any sense to me, since this is very simple - you put the code in a file with a .ils suffix, then load("thatfile.ils") and then initialise using  abSeqBindKey->initBindKeys("Layout") and finally define some multi-key bind keys as described at the top of the file in the comments.

Andrew.