Deleting ghost layer

Hi dNora,

unfortunately you don't show the code where dbDeleteObject is called - are you calling it with the lpp's found by the foreach, where your printf statement is?  If so I am not sure this is valid - you can delete the shapes of the lpp, but I don't know about deleting the lpp itself.  Try something like this (assuming you were calling dbDeleteObject(lpp) ) :

  mapcar('dbDeleteObject lpp~>shapes)

 A dd object is different to a db object, so this is why the ddDeleteObj function would not work - if you do not have a dd object, then it will not work.  Think of the dd objects as being similar to what you see in the Library Manager, a library dd object, a cell, a view and so on.

The lpp (LP) object is a collection object, I believe that it is automatically created in virtual memory for shapes on layer purposes, so it probably cannot be directly modified, but if you modify the shapes, this in turn should update the lpps attribute of the cellview object.

I hope that this helps you.

Regards,

Lawrence.

 Hi Lawrence,

I was confused by the way Cadence reported the lpps. I assumed it should report layers in the level I'm querying. But I think it was reporting through whole hierarchy. It was reporting lpps with no shape associated. I wrote script to scan through whole hierarchy, found the shape and deleted it using dbDeleteObject. Thanks for your help.

You are welcome.  I probably should have noted that the lpps (or layerPurposePairs) attribute is collected for levels of hierarchy that have been opened - so if you are at the level 0 and do not open or display levels below this (i.e. 1+ ) then you would only see lpps containing the layer purpose pairs from level 0 shapes.  I am glad that you figured it out though.

Regards,

Lawrence.

 hi,

i meet the similar problem to you. i dont know which file was deleted or which application will disturbe the virtuoso.

the virtuoso tells me an error: ddMapGetFileViewType: argument #1 should be addUserType (type template = " b") -nil

how can i solve this problem? 

Any guides or helps will be pleased.

Regard

Calla

Not quite sure about the question. Maybe something like this script might help. This works on whole library, you could change it to be hierarchy.

procedure(del_layer(libname layer)
let((libId viewn cv )
libId = ddGetObj(libname)
viewn = "layout"
;;cv= geGetEditCellView()

 foreach(cell libId~>cells
   when(member(viewn cell~>views~>name)
      cv = dbOpenCellViewByType(libname cell~>name viewn nil "a")
      info(".. Processing %s\n" cv~>cellName)
            foreach(shape cv~>shapes
            when( (shape~>layerName == layer)
                             dbDeleteObject(shape)
                  ) ;when
                  );foreach
            dbSave(cv)
     );when
  );foreach
 );let
);procedure

I can't see how that error message is anything to do with the discussion in this thread - that's related to dd objects, not db objects. Those are cellViews, cells, libraries etc, not shapes or layers.

You'll need to provide more details.

Andrew.

 hi,

I input the command "virtuoso" in the terminal to start the application and the cds.log shows me everything is ok. Then i want to exit the virtuoso, the cds.log shows me the error and some warnings as following:

set forth at FAR 1252.227-19 or its equivalent.
\o Loading geView.cxt
\o Loading menuBuilder.cxt
\o Loading schView.cxt
\o Loading selectSv.cxt
\o Loading LVS.cxt
\o Loading layerProc.cxt
\o Loading xlUI.cxt
\o Loading auCore.cxt
\o Loading vhdl.cxt
\o Loading seismic.cxt
\o Loading ci.cxt
\o Loading ams.cxt
\o Virtuoso Framework License (111) was checked out successfully. Total checkout time was 0.02s.
\o END OF USER CUSTOMIZATION
\w *WARNING* (reader): a '(' at line 269 was still unclosed on EOF, ')' added
\w                     at line 286 of file .cdsinit
\o //
\o //  Calibre Skill Interface * (v2008.1_20.15) *
\o //
\o //                 Copyright Mentor Graphics Corporation 2005
\o //                             All Rights Reserved.
\o //         THIS WORK CONTAINS TRADE SECRET AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
\o //            WHICH IS THE PROPERTY OF MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION
\o //              OR ITS LICENSORS AND IS SUBJECT TO LICENSE TERMS.
\o //
\o //
\i ddsWhatsNew()
\p >
\o Loading rte.cxt
\a hiCloseWindow(window(2))
\r t
\w *WARNING* LIB cdsDefTechLib from File /software_tools/edi912/EDI91/share/cdssetup/dfII/cds.lib Line 1 redefines
\w LIB cdsDefTechLib from File /software_tools/IC614/share/cdssetup/dfII/cds.lib
\w Insert UNDEFINE cdsDefTechLib
\w before DEFINE cdsDefTechLib
\w     in /software_tools/edi912/EDI91/share/cdssetup/dfII/cds.lib
\w Or remove or comment out DEFINE cdsDefTechLib
\w     in /software_tools/IC614/share/cdssetup/dfII/cds.lib
\w to suppress this warning message.
\w *WARNING* LIB basic from File /software_tools/edi912/EDI91/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib Line 1 redefines
\w LIB basic from File /software_tools/IC614/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib
\w Insert UNDEFINE basic
\w before DEFINE basic
\w     in /software_tools/edi912/EDI91/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib
\w Or remove or comment out DEFINE basic
\w     in /software_tools/IC614/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib
\w to suppress this warning message.
\w *WARNING* LIB US_8ths from File /software_tools/edi912/EDI91/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib Line 2 redefines
\w LIB US_8ths from File /software_tools/IC614/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib
\w Insert UNDEFINE US_8ths
\w before DEFINE US_8ths
\w     in /software_tools/edi912/EDI91/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib
\w Or remove or comment out DEFINE US_8ths
\w     in /software_tools/IC614/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/cdsDotLibs/composer/cds.lib
\w to suppress this warning message.
\e *Error* ddMapGetFileViewType: argument #1 should be a ddUserType (type template = "b") - nil
\e *Error* ddMapGetFileViewType: argument #1 should be a ddUserType (type template = "b") - nil
\e *Error* ddMapGetFileViewType: argument #1 should be a ddUserType (type template = "b") - nil
\e *Error* ddMapGetFileViewType: argument #1 should be a ddUserType (type template = "b") - nil
\e *Error* ddMapGetFileViewType: argument #1 should be a ddUserType (type template = "b") - nil
\a ciwHiExit()
\p >
\a hiDBoxOK(ciwDBox)
\r t
\o Loading cph.cxt
\o
\# Memory report: on exit 89157632 (0x5507000) bytes, UTC 2011.12.09 06:15:29.027

By the way,  you tells me the script might help and I could change it to be hierarchy, what is the script name? Shall I creat a new file which has the above information? 

thanks a lot.

The more detail i got shows on the reply to dNora. I don't know how to solve it. 

Any helps and guides are welcomed.

Regard.

Calla

Calla,

The reason why the reply from dNora doesn't help is because your problem has nothing to do with anything discussed in this thread. This topic is about deleting shapes on layers in a layout. Your problem is to do with an error message you get in the CIW - it's not even anything to do with anything being deleted as far as I can see, so I have no idea why you thought it was related to this thread, except for the fact that the error message in the original posting by dNora was referring to an error message due to incorrectly calling the function ddDeleteObj instead of dbDeleteObject. Even then the similarity was simply the message about the expected type of the argument - the operations where completely different.

I suggest this conversation is continued in your other post and we leave this one alone.

Andrew.