Reselect Items

Brian,

What version are you using?

In IC61X you have this already in the layout editor under the Edit->Select menu (Save/Restore and Previous/Next set). The Options->Selection can be used to auto-store selection sets.

Andrew.

Hi Andrew, sorry forgot to mention, im on IC5.1.415. Im thinking so could there be a way to store a selection set, and recall if needed. What do you reckon?

Brian.

Brian,

Well, since you can get the selected set with:

selSet=geGetSelSet()

you could restore it by doing:

foreach(obj selSet geSelectFig(obj))

It's a bit more complicated if you want to handle partial selections though, as you'd need to use functions like geIsObjectPartiallySelected, and then geGetSelSetFigPoint - and then record for each object which points were selected - say in a list. Upon restore you'd have to use geSelectFigPoint to partially select the relevant vertices.

Hopefully that gives you some pointers if you want to write the code.

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew! Yeah that sounds like it should do the trick, i'll give it a go and see what I come up with. I'll repost here if I get it together or if i've any Qs..

Thanks again,

 Brian.

Hi Andrew, heres a first draft. It works fine, however I noticed when I execute the second reselect function (BSreselectSelSet2) it crashes Cadence if the stored selected set has changed (ie deleted an object or object point). So I'm trying to add a search function just before the geSelectFig and geSelectFigPoint functions to account for this. Im using...

 leSearchHierarchy(geGetEditCellView() geGetEditCellView()~>bBox 0 "any shape" list(obj))

...however am not having much luck with the syntax of the command. Wondering what would be the best way to search a cellview for objects and object points for this purpose?

Brian.

procedure(BSstoreSelSet2()
    partselobjlist2=nil
    partselobjpointlist2=nil
    fullselobjlist2=nil
    foreach(fig geGetSelSet()
        if(geIsObjectPartiallySelected(fig nil) == t
            then    partselobjlist2 = cons( fig partselobjlist2 )
                        partselobjpointlist2 = cons( geGetSelSetFigPoint(fig) partselobjpointlist2 )
            else    fullselobjlist2 = cons( fig fullselobjlist2 )
        );if
    );foreach
    printf("Selection Set 2 stored\n")
);procedure
hiSetBindKey("Layout" "Ctrl Shift<key>KP_Down" "BSstoreSelSet2()")


procedure(BSreselectSelSet2()
    geDeselectAll()
    partselobjpointlist2destruct=partselobjpointlist2
    foreach(obj fullselobjlist2 geSelectFig(obj))
    foreach(obj partselobjlist2
        geSelectFigPoint(obj car(partselobjpointlist2destruct))
        partselobjpointlist2destruct=cdr(partselobjpointlist2destruct)
    );foreach
    printf("Selection Set 2 selected\n")
);procedure
hiSetBindKey("Layout" "Ctrl<key>KP_Down" "BSreselectSelSet2()")

Try using dbIsId(obj) to check if the object is still valid?

Andrew.

Yep, works a charm, but how then to go about checking for points on partially selected objects?

Brian.

For a polygon or path, the nPoints attribute should be the same length as the list returned from geGetSelSetFigPoint. If the number of points has changed, then the partial list isn't valid anymore.

Derek

Andrew/Derek, much thanks for your all your help! :) Finished code attached.

Regards,

Brian.

Andrew/Derek,

One quick question. The above code uses the objects db number to store the selected object. This however changes regularly when editing the layout, leading to stored sets no longer being valid. Is there any way around this, maybe to lock the db number to the object to stop the change, or any other means of storing objects?

Thanks,

Brian.