textDisplays doesn't exist till you edit pin name height

Well, there is a dbCreateTextDisplay SKILL command, this may give you what you want. I'm guessing a little bit here, since there is a distinct lack of detail (schematic or layout?  which software version?)

Regards,

Lawrence.

Normally the textDisplays for pins get created straightaway. Some textDisplays only created when an instance label is moved or changed in some way, because the label (or textDisplay) only exists in the master - and the act of doing that then obscures the label from the master (it doesn't display it).

When I checked in the schematic editor in IC5141 and IC614, creating a pin caused the textDisplay to get created - and I can manipulate it for all terminals by doing cv~>terminals~>textDisplays~>height=... 

Perhaps it is depended on the library your pins are coming from? 

I think more detail is needed, as Lawrence suggested.

Regards,

Andrew.

I'm in 5.10.41.500.6.141

Thanks, I see dbCreateTextDisplay. Now, is there a way to access the textDisplays from the master and create that for the instance? I only want to change the height. I see that thisPin~>?? shows nil for assocTextDisplays so what must one do? How does the properties editor handle this?

This is for a schematic view.  The pins are coming from the "basic" library.

Thanks for helping. I'm trying to set up Ctrl+] and Ctrl-[ as bindkeys to make pin names bigger and smaller. When I fit the schematic to a full-screen window, I like to see all pin names without zooming.

 Any thoughts Andrew, Lawrence? This would really boost my productivity when I'm doing reverse engineering.

 Thanks

Don't use cellView terminals, use shapes. This works :

cv = geGetWindowCellView()
printf("Processing %s\n", cv~>cellName)
(if !( cv~>mode == "r")
    then
        foreach( shape cv~>shapes
            if( (equal("label" shape~>purpose) && equal("pin" car(shape~>lpp) ) )
                then
                    shape~>height = 1.1*shape~>height
            )
        )
    else
        println("Sorry, exiting due to read-only mode")
)

However, when I do that, I notice that Fit (shortcut : f) no longer shows the schematic correctly - some of the pin names are outside the viewing area.

Anyone have a clue about that?

Thanks!

It looks at the ~>bBox attribute of the cellView. This should update automatically, but you can call dbComputeBBox(cvId) to force it to recompute it.

Regards,

Andrew.