How to add comments on pcell created?

Hi Messi,

Hmm, the email notification from the forum said:

I have created a pcell which helps to check for width,overlap,spacing check of layers.So if do width check i like to have comment written on the pcell as "width check".Similarly for space and ovelap check.comment should  "space check" and "ovelap check".

This comment should vary with pcell parameter called comment which i pass in the formal arguments section

You seem to have edited the description to say even less than your original question, which wasn't much!

I must be missing something, because this would seem fairly obvious to me. Use dbCreateLabel() to create some text? Or even just have a fixed label on the pcell (created with dbCreateLabel) where you do:

label=dbCreateLabel(pcCellView "text" 0:0 "ilInst~>comment" "lowerLeft" "R0" "stick" 0.1)
label~>labelType="ILLabel"

In this case you wouldn't need comment to be a pcell formal parameter (which means that you reduce the number of variants, which is good for efficiency). If you want it to be a parameter, you could do:

dbCreateLabel(pcCellView "text" 0:0 comment "lowerLeft" "R0" "stick" 0.1)

You can of course change the location of the label (at the origin here), the height, and font etc.

Another alternative (in IC61X) might be to use dbCreateMarker so that you can look at the messages in the Annotation Browser. Rather depends on your objectives (I'm having to guess here, because  your description is a bit light...)

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi, Andrew

        It was a of a great help for me....Thanks...

Regards,

  Messi

Andrew,

Can you let me know how to add carriage return.

labelText = "ABC\nXYZ"

dbCreateLabel(cv "text" 0:0 labelText ....)

This seems to be doing when i am running in CIW but when i run it through nograph and a replay file it is adding the "\n" to the line and not doing a carriage return,

Thanks

This works for me. You might also want to try using virtuoso -nograph -restore mycode.il (which is better for straight SKILL code, rather than -replay which is intended more to replay a log file). I tried this in IC615 - maybe you were using something different?

Andrew.