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Using the code the GUI uses

Michael Robinson

Cadence GUI's are bulky and clunky. I want to drive the behind-the-scenes code that Cadence GUI's drive.

For example, le0ViaForm. I can set the variables that are used in the form: le0ViaForm->viaMode->value="Stack" from skill.

But those variables don't exist until the form is called at least once. So the first time my skill is run, it errors.

Once the form has been initialized (manually), using the form variables is difficult because of Cadence's 'unreal time' timing.

Yes, I know about hiRegTimer. That's a kludge.

Driving the inputs to a GUI from Skill is like yelling at a driver on the freeway going 70mph to change lanes. 

How can I access to the real code behind the GUI's? Where is the reference to the code behind the GUI's?

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  • You could use dbCreateVia and do it yourself...

    There's a lot of complexity in the via form - particularly because of populating with relevant information from constraints and so on. So if you use dbCreateVia then you have to do a lot of the work yourself - the form takes care of providing higher level functionality. If you want access to some of that higher level functionality without the form, I'd suggest you contact customer support and ask for an enhancement to give what  you want, such as maybe an leCreateVia function to correspond to leHiCreateVia. 

    Best Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • You could use dbCreateVia and do it yourself...

    There's a lot of complexity in the via form - particularly because of populating with relevant information from constraints and so on. So if you use dbCreateVia then you have to do a lot of the work yourself - the form takes care of providing higher level functionality. If you want access to some of that higher level functionality without the form, I'd suggest you contact customer support and ask for an enhancement to give what  you want, such as maybe an leCreateVia function to correspond to leHiCreateVia. 

    Best Regards,

    Andrew.

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