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clipboard text access from icfb

swdesigner

Hello,

         Is there any way to accomplish something like this :

Is there any way, within icfb (say schematic editor), to be able to access text in the xwindows clipboard?

Here is my end goal :

I want to select text in my text editor (such as NEdit - outside icfb)

Then, in my schematic editor, I want to execute a bindkey that will :

search for instance name matching the selected tex
zoom to the instance

Any ideas will be great.

Thanks!

  • skillUser

    Hi SWDesigner,

    To my knowledge there is no programmatic (API) interface to any clipboard or copy-paste buffer in SKILL.  However there appears to be a Linux command called "xclip" that may provide such access externally, and then perhaps this could be invoked/interacted with using the ipcBeginProcess and related commands in SKILL.

    That's all I have, hope it helps!

    Lawrence.

  • swdesigner

    That's a good start. I see that

    xclip -o

    captures what has been selected. Let me see if I can hash something together..

    Now it boils down to capturing the output of a shell command in a string. Is ipcBeginProcess the only way?

  • skillUser

    I think that ipcBeginProcess() could be the best if not the only way to capture output from an external process/script/command, so you will need to write a little code around using "xclip".

    Good luck!

    Lawrence.

  • swdesigner

    I confirmed that

    cid = ipcBeginProcess("xclip -o")

    text = ipcReadProcess(cid)

    captures text outside of Cadence that has been selected.

    Thanks!

  • skillUser

    Excellent, glad to hear it!

    Lawrence.

  • swdesigner

    Unfortunately, text in the Calculator tool is not being captured.

    Any ideas? Sometimes, I want to go to the level where the net defined in the calculator tool is.

    Eg, I want a bindkey to take me where VT("/xtop/XSD1/XLGC/net203") is, but my clipboard access isn't working..

    If the text is somewhere outside cadence, it works (yes, it doesn't even work for text in the entry field of the CIW...

    Any help would be great.

    Thanks!

  • Andrew Beckett

    It's probably best to get the input buffer from the calculator by using calGetBuffer() rather than trying to do it via the clipboard.

    Andrew.

  • swdesigner

    Hmmm, I'm really interested in working with text that could be anywhere in xwindows. Sometimes, it just happens to be in the calculator buffer...

    Funny thing is, in an xterm, if I do

    xclip -o

    when I have the calculator buffer text selected, I get the correct output. Yet, cadence isn't able to capture it...

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