selecting single figures/objects...

hi

everything works great now. one thing gets on my nerves. if i've runned the programm and als sub cellviews and so on are created. now i want to run the programm a second time and he ask me to overwrite the layout.cdb for each cellview. so i have 100-300 rectangles and thus 100-300 new cellviews. and i dont want to click 100-300 times "yes pls overwrite it" ^^

hope you now what i mean^^

 regards,
philip

 hey

now there is an other problem with copy figures. i have a polygon with more than 4 points. how can i copy this? i get an error when i use leyankfigs: "Yank shape has illegal number of points - 5" 

regards
philip

 so i've found a way to copy. so i split the polygon with dbLayerTile() in rectangles and copy these in my new cellview. but now i want must fix the postition of each rect. how can i change the coordinates of a rectangle? until now i didn't found anything.

regards
philip

Hi Philip,

First of all, I can't see why leYankFigs would have a problem copying polygons with 5 points. I wondered whether you meant that the list of points argument you give has to have 4 points (I tried with 5 or 6 and that works). So I don't really understand the problem - perhaps you could give the exact error message.

lePasteFigs allows you to specify an origin for the resulting paste, and provided you've specified a reference point in the leYankFigs call,  I don't see why you'd need to change the coordinates? 

Anyway, changing the coordinates of a rectangle would be just a matter of modifying the ~>bBox of the rectangle.

Best Regrds,

Andrew.

 Hi Andrew

hmm this was the exact  error. and i've thought that is possible with leyankfig.
so my leyankfig call was: leYankFigs(CV bBox 5) and the bBox is bBox= CV~>shapes~>bBox. after a printf bBox looks like ( (6,3 3.7 5,8) (1 6)) ... thats only an example. so in die first list are 3 arguments and 2 in the other. and when i call my function i get the error i've wrote above.

is there a mistake in my syntax?

and for interest. how should be the arguments in lepastefigs if i want to copy my objects from a position in the source Cellview to the same position in destination cellview.

 regards
philip

Hi Philip,

Yes, that's incorrect. The second argument to the leYankFigs is a list of points for the yank shape. You've given a list of bBoxes, one for each shape in the cellView - that's not correct. 

If you're copying all shapes in the cellView, I would probably have done it by looping over the shapes and using dbCopyFig, but otherwise you could use:

bBox=CV~>bBox
ll=lowerLeft(bBox)
ur=upperRight(bBox)
lpts=list(ll xCoord(ll):yCoord(ur) ur xCoord(ur):yCoord(ll))
leYankFig(CV lpts 5 0:0)
lePasteFig(DestCV 0:0)

Passing the reference point in the leYankFigs (and giving the same reference point in the lePasteFigs) .

BTW, the reason I wanted the full error (with the error code if any) was that this tends to reveal more. Also, knowing which version you had been using could have helped. In this case though, I'd have needed to know how bBox was being computed - and clearly it was wrong, as you've explained.

Regards,

Andrew.

hey andrew

thanks a lot. that makes sense^^

but now i have a polygon like in the picture below. and you say i must loop the shape to get all points. but what i have to loop? (i hope it's right english ) ...the Bbox or.... ?

regards
philip

Hi Philip,

No, my point about looping over the shapes was to use something similar to /forums/p/17163/1223573.aspx#1223573 which I mentioned earlier. If you want to use all shapes, you could do:

foreach(fig srcCV~>shapes
  dbCopyFig(fig destCV)
)

The code I gave in my last append should find the overall bounding box of the cellView, and then convert this to a list of four points representing the yank area. That should do what  you want, if I've understood you properly. No need to give yank points precisely following the outline of your shapes, as far as I can tell.

Regards,

Andrew.

hey andrew

very thanks. it works now very well =)

regards
philip