selecting single figures/objects...

Try:

geAddSelectBox(
[ w_windowId ]
[ g_partial ]
[ l_bBox ]
)
=> t / nil
Implements the add mode of area selection. With no arguments given, it prompts you to enter the area to be selected in the current window. Partial selection is performed only when the window environment variable partialSelect is set and the stretch command is active. Partial selection lets you select an edge, vertex, or endpoint of an object to stretch.
 
OR

geSelectArea(
[ w_windowId ]
[ l_bBox ]
)
=> t / nil
Calls geAddSelectBox to add selected objects within the specified bounding box in the specified window.

I found these commands in the Skill Finder tool. You can run it by running cdsFinder from a shell command line, or startFinder from your CIW. Then search for "select".

Derek

thx derek for your fast answer

 i've overlocked it )= ... i will test it tomorrow.

thank you
philip

hi,

thanks alot. it works fine.

but now i've searched for a function where you can copy this marked objects into an oher cellview. so i can create a new one and it opens it. but the copy .... none of the functions i've tried bringing the desired result. or i'm too stupid to use them ^^

 hope you or anyone can help

greetz
philip

Hi Philip,

Select the objects, and then do Edit->Copy (or the "c" bindkey if you have the "default" bindkeys set up - you should see on the menu item what (if any) bindkey you have). Look at the prompts in the bottom of the source window. It will probably be prompting you for a reference point - and once you've clicked that you can then click in the destination window and it will copy there.

Ah, perhaps you're asking for a SKILL function to do this. In which case:

foreach(fig geGetSelSet()
  dbCopyFig(fig destCV)
)

If you have a source window id and destination window id, you could use:

destCV=geGetEditCellView(destWinId)
foreach(fig geGetSelSet(srcWinId)
  dbCopyFig(fig destCV)
)

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew

 also that works, too. my problem is that i have for exapmle .. one cellview with 2 text-boxes side by side an over these 2 boxes a poly-layer(see the link). so what i want is, to create 2 new cellviews, one for each textbox and copy the content in the respective cellview. so only the content of text-rectangle 1 has to be copied to cellview 1 and only the content of text-rectangle 2 has to be copied to cellview 2.
is there a possibility?

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/499/examplev.png

Regards
philip

 HI Philip,

If you also want the poly layer (or any crossing shape) to also be copied then you could use the Yank and Paste feature.  The Yank can "slice through" shapes cutting them off at the edge of the yank box, and then in a new cellview you would Paste the content of the Yank buffer, so using you example, you would get a bit of the poly layer plus the text box and anything else in the rectangular Yank box that you draw.  For precision you can start the Yank command (e.g. from the menu, in case you have infix turned on) and then you can type the coordinates into the CIW, e.g. 0:-7 and then 12:7 to specify the corners of the Yank box precisely, rather than trying to click on the exact coordinates in the layout window. Then use Paste in the new cellview in a similar way, start the Paste from the menu and specify the lower-left origin by typing the coordinate into the CIW.

I hope that this is what you are looking for.

Regards,

Lawrence.

And you can use the leYangFigs or lePasteFigs SKILL functions to do the same thing.

Otherwise you'd need to use things like dbLayerAnd to produce filtered versions of the shapes - but they only work on flat shapes. Yank and Paste will include any complete instance within the yank region, or will chop through the hierarchy (like a "cookie cutter").

Regards,

Andrew.

this 2 functions are very nice =)
they do all what i want. and the feature to go down in the hierachy and to search for objects in other instance or so is brilliant^^

 thanks.

 there is an other question. it's not very important just a little gimmick. when i've copied the objects in the new cellview the objects are everywhere. so there are the buttom "Fit Edit" where the objects are brought in the middle. how can i do that in skill code? is there a possibility to "activate" this buttom automatically?

 philip

Sorry about the slight gobbledegook in the previous post (the p,li white-space bit). Was caused by pasting from something with some formatting in and is a quirk of the forum software.

Regards,

Andrew.