Help on creating own menu in layout window

Either create a pulldown menu using hiCreatePulldownMenu and then use deRegUserTriggers to register a user menu trigger - this can then return a list of pulldown menus to add for a particular application. Or look in <ICinstDir>/tools/dfII/etc/tools/menus (there's a README file in there) to see how to create menus files to add your own menus.

There are solutions on this on the Cadence support site, or examples in the documentation (I'm sure - although I didn't check).

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew,

                       I got below code in this forum.When i executing this code it shows error hiMenu@0xda630e8.

Please help me on this issue.

 hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>F10" "AmitAddMenu()")
procedure(AmitAddMenu()
  let( (item1 item2)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the
    ;; pulldown menus
    list(hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2)))
  );let
); procedure
;; create a userMenuTrigger trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil 'AmitAddMenu)

Thank You.

Two things wrong here:

1. The bindkey is a bit pointless - if you hit F10, it will just return a list of the pulldown menu object, which is not very useful (maybe this is what you thought the error was?)
2. The AmitAddMenu() is missing a required argument (deRegUserTriggers will call the function passing a disembodied property list with information about the window/design that is in the window being configured). Without this you get the following when you try to open a layout window:

*Error* AmitAddMenu: too many arguments (0 expected, 1 given) - ((nil wasPushed nil prependList nil ... ))

*WARNING* (DEBASE-102079): A SKILL error occurred in function AmitAddMenu

*Error* __deRemoveDup: argument #1 should be a list (type template = "l") - t

The answer is to make the code like this:

procedure(AmitAddMenu(args)
  let( (item1 item2)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the
    ;; pulldown menus
    list(hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2)))
  );let
); procedure
;; create a userMenuTrigger trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil 'AmitAddMenu)

With this, opening a new layout window will get the pulldown menu. Notice that in this case the args argument is not used - that's why I had previously given an example with an underscore prefix, which simply signals to SKILL Lint that the fact that the argument is unused is intentional. It has to be there, because the system calling the function will pass this argument, regardless of whether you need it or not.

Regards,

Andrew

Thanks Andrew,

                       It is working.Thank you very very much andrew.