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Setting window to partial select mode when opened

menime54

 I would like to write a SKILL function for Cadence so that when a new layout or schematic window is opened, the window is automatically set to be in partial select mode.  I have tried some trigger functions, but nothing seems to work.

  • envSetVal("layout" "partialSelect" 'boolean t)

    Will do this.

    Andrew.

  • Thank you so much Andrew.  We also tried to use the envSetVal("layout" "partialSelect" 'boolean t) comand to change our schematics and symbols to partial select, but we are getting the following errors:

     

    \i envSetVal("schematic" "partialSelect" 'boolean t)
    \w *WARNING* envSetVal: Can't set the value of variable 'partialSelect',
    \w     in tool[.partition] 'schematic' - it has not been registered.
    \t nil
    \i envSetVal("symbol" "partialSelect" 'boolean t)
    \w *WARNING* Cannot find /tools/stabflow/mainline/pcios/mainline-ll65/IC5141USR3lnx/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/tools/symbol directory to load environment variables
    \w *WARNING* envSetVal: could not find tool[.partition] 'symbol'
    \t nil

     

    Do you know why we are getting these errors and if there is a work around to set our schematics and symbols to partial select?  Thank you.

  • Hi,

    Did your installation get corrupted? This is the sort of thing
    I've seen in the past if an installation was incomplete. Can you
    try installing the latest (USR6)?

    regards,
    Lawrence.

  • No, this doesn't indicate that the installation is corrupted. The cdsenv variables for schematic and symbol are different from the layout variable. You'd need to use:

    envSetVal("schematic" "schematicAreaPartialSelect" 'boolean t)
    envSetVal("schematic" "symbolAreaPartialSelect" 'boolean t)

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Ooops, I should have read the error messages more carefully, sorry, my mistake...

    Lawrence.

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