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Object selected banner message

menime54

When an object is selected in my layout, I would like to have a banner on my window showing what object is selected.  I can not figure out how to tell my function that an object is selected.  Is there some sort of a trigger function that says that an object is selected, so that I can use it to call my function that puts the banner of the selected object on my window?

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  • RonSill

    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.

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  • RonSill

    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.

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