some thing about the user menus in ADE!(complete!)

I just tried that code in IC5141 (the menus file looks as if it was written for IC5141) and it worked fine. It suggests to me that you've altered the code in some way, because it shows that sevAddMenuItemLists has two arguments, the second of which is the number 2. That's not in the code anywhere, so presumably something got changed when you cut and pasted it?

Which version of Virtuoso are you trying to use?

Andrew.

 Hello Andrew,

Yes the code was written for IC5, for IC6 we use the same approach but some of the names of the default menu items are changed, so the script is little bit modified.

Best regards,

Stoyan

Based on an email message sent to me by  NcfC (not sure why that user didn't post here, since they posted before) - the email was a bit scramble, but it said

NcfC said:

When I load the above code into CIW, I don't get any error nor warning messages, but I don't see the added menu entry in the ADE window.Could you help me?Thank you very much in advance.Best regards,Noel Carneiro

Well, you're not supposed to load the code into the CIW. You're supposed to create a file called spectre.menus in a subdirectory called menus (e.g. as a subdirectory of your working dir or home dir).

Regards,

Andrew.

hi, Andrew.

I'm using version 5.10.41.500.6.132. I don't know what got changed when I copy and paste the code but I re-pasted it and, although I got no warnings, I don't see the new menu/item anywhere in the ADE window.

If I load the following code in the .cdsinit,

load( prependInstallPath( "etc/tools/menus/schematic.menus" ) )

procedure(CustomMenu( _args )

let( (item1 item2)

;; create a couple of menu items

item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "Item 1" ?callback "FunctionOne()" )

item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "Item 2" ?callback "FunctionTwo()" )

;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the

;; pulldown menus

list( hiCreatePulldownMenu( 'CustomMenu "Custom Menu" list( item1 item2 ) ) )

);let

); procedure

;; create a userMenuTrigger trigger that automatically adds the menu

deRegUserTriggers( "schematic" nil 'CustomMenu )

Well, that will never work. The code above is mixing two different methodologies - you're loading the menus file at the top (which shouldn't be loaded from the .cdsinit - it's for menus files only), and the de user menu trigger mechanism...

So there's no need to have the load() line at the top.

It doesn't work for ADE because ADE is not a Design Editor application, and so de triggers are not called.

Regards,

Andrew.