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You could use  leRegUserObjectSelectionFilter to do this. You're not actually going to filter the selection, but this is triggered whenever anything is selected.

Regards,

Andrew.

If you're using IC613 and above, you may turn-on the info ballon. This is show you a info box when u wave/touch an object. You can even set the contents of the info box.

Options->Dynamic Display

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The function gets called because the dynamic highlighting needs to know whether to dynamically highlight the object or not - so whether it is potentially selectable or not - the perils of using something which is intended as a selection filter to do something else.

There is another function which I'm looking into at the moment, but it's currently private (and hence not documented) - I'm currently checking with R&D whether it can be made public (there was an append in the CCR which suggests that R&D consider it public) and then documented. Which version are you using?

Regards,

Andrew.

 I am using version 5.10

I just checked, and the private functions I'm looking at to solve this are also available in IC5141. So let's see if we agree to make the functions public or not - probably will be a few days before I know because of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Regards,

Andrew.

We've decided that the private functions I was looking at to implement what you want will remain private. The interface to these functions is quite complex, liable to change, and also has to be used carefully to avoid breaking things - so they are not a good candidate to be made public.

So unfortunately that means I don't know of a way of doing what you want. Perhaps you should contact customer support for an enhancement to do what you want (if the IC61 features don't give you what you need; IC5141 is too old to have enhancements added).

Regards,

Andrew.

I just joined the forums and ran acros this post. Back when I was using release 5.x I wrote a program that did exactly this. I utilized the function hiChangeBannerLabel() to add labels to the banner. The program I wrote gathered information about what was selected and then passed this info on to the hiChangeBannerLabel fucntion. To make this automagic I changed any of my bindkeys that had anything to do with selecting or unselecting and incorporated my new code into those bind key definitions so the banner was updated everytime a selection or deselection was made. It worked great! I had different items reported depending on what was selected. If an instance was selected I display cell name, lib name, view name, etc. If a polygon was selected I displayed the layer and total area. A path listed layer and width. A pmos/nmos I also display w and l. Then on multiple selections I gave totals, like 15 instances, 2 paths, etc. Now that I am in version 6.x I need to re-write as things are different, like the banner labels I can display are now only on the bottom of the window, etc. But I do miss this so I will re-write it soon.