Equivalent to instancesLastChanged in OA

 Hi Eric,

there is a lastSchematicExtraction time property on the cellview, you might use this if comparing with the layout?  Various properties moved to being counters in OA, so for example there is a counter each for "schGeometryLastUpdated" and "connectivityLastUpdated", and a function dbGetCellViewCounter() will retrieve the current cellview counter value, so this way you know if the schematic is modified with respect to its counter.  Another function dbIsConnCurrent() can be used to discover if the schematic connectivity is up-to-date.

This may not answer your question, but I hope the information helps you.

Regards,

Lawrence.

 One way is to compare the time stamps on the files of the cellViews. Use dbGetFileTimeStamp to get the time stamps on the cellViews and if the schematic is newer, flag the layout as possibly out of date.

Ted

 Ok for the dbGetFileTimeStamp if there is no other solution. In fact, I'm looking for a function like dbIsConnCurrent() which look at connectivity in the layout against the connectivity in schematic.

Another question about counters. How are they managed. If I move a wire in schematic. I thought that the counter will be incremented by  1 but it is by 13 ...

 Regards

 Eric

 Unfortunately there is nothing that directly ties the two views together. You could create a function to be called by schRegPostCheckTrigger create a property on the schematic that puts a date property on the schematic after a successful check & save that you can check against timestamp on the layout. 

Counters are controlled by the OA database so the value of the increment may var.

Ted

 Hi Ted,

This is a good idea. I will look at it.

Thanks for you help

Eric