Get all other cells used in a given cell

Thanks!  This was definitely helpful to me.  However, I'm still having some issues.

The recursion in principle is not really a problem, what I'm struggling with is to do this for just one level.  The goal at this point is given a cell with a schematic, get all the other cells that have schematics and whose symbols appear in the original schematic (i.e., if there's no schematic, then skip it)  Here's what I've figured out so far:

getCurrentWindow()->cellView returns an object of a type that corresponds to a cellview (call it CellViewType1 for now).  CellViewType1 has many useful properties, including "instanceMasters", which gets all the cell views referenced in the schematic (which are also of CellViewType1), "cell", which gets an object corresponding to the cell, and "cellViewType", which is useful for seeing if it is a schematic or symbol.

If I can start with an object of type CellViewType1, and get a list of objects of type CellViewType1, then it would seem that I could now do recursion--but there's one catch.  The new list of objects correspond to the symbol views, not the schematic views, so the instanceMasters property won't work.

Now the task becomes, given an object of type CellViewType1, to do the following:
1.  Figure out if there's a schematic for the cell above this cell view
2.  If so, get the CellViewType1 object that corresponds to that schematic

If I can do that, then I can move recursively.

However, if I start with a CellViewType1 object, and use the properties ->cell and ->views like so:
mycvt1obj->cell->views
then I do get a list of cellViews that are its siblings--but the type is different!  I call this CellViewType2, and it does not have the "instanceMasters" or "cellViewType" properties, so I can't figure out if any of them are a schematic or move recursively.

I also tried experimenting with ddGetObj to see what it returns, thinking that this could get me back to CellViewType1, but it actually gives me CellViewType2.

Here's what the ->?? looks like for the two types:

CellViewType1--
(db:0x0f73d012 cellView db:0x0f73d012 objType "cellView" prop (db:0x0f73d492 db:0x0f73d49a db:0x0f73d499 db:0x0f73d496 db:0x0f73d495 db:0x0f73d494 db:0x0f73d493) bBox ((-1.25 -0.3125) (1.8 0.6)) lib dd:0x109d4688 libName "CooperTestLib" cellName "BusCellInst" cell dd:0x10a01884 cellViewType "schematic" cellType "none" conns (db:0x0f73ec92 db:0x0f73ec95 db:0x0f73ec96) DBUPerUU 160.0 fileName "/home/cclauson/CooperTestLib/BusCellInst/schematic/sch.oa" createTime "Jan 28 16:00:41 2012" fileTimeStamp "Jan 28 16:01:26 2012" groupMembers nil groups nil instHeaders (db:0x0f73ed12 db:0x0f73ed13) instHeaderRefs nil instRefs nil instanceMasters (db:0x0f73ea12 db:0x0f73d292) instances (db:0x0f73d792 db:0x0f73d793) isParamCell nil layerHeaders (db:0x0f73ce92 db:0x0f73ce93 db:0x0f73ce94 db:0x0f73ce95) layerPurposePairs (db:0x0f73e992 db:0x0f73e993 db:0x0f73e994 db:0x0f73e995 db:0x0f73e996 db:0x0f73e997 db:0x0f73e998) lpps (db:0x0f73e992 db:0x0f73e993 db:0x0f73e994 db:0x0f73e995 db:0x0f73e996 db:0x0f73e997 db:0x0f73e998) memInsts ((db:0x0f73d792 0) (db:0x0f73d793 0)) mode "a" modifiedButNotSaved nil modifiedCounter 90 mosaics nil markers nil trackPatterns nil rowHeaders nil rows nil nets (db:0x0f73ce16 db:0x0f73ce17) shapes (db:0x0f73d612 db:0x0f73d613 db:0x0f73d614 db:0x0f73d615 db:0x0f73d616) signals (db:0x0f73ce16) sigNames ("gnd!") subMasters nil superMaster nil terminals nil userUnits "inch" viewName "schematic" view dd:0x10a0184c textDisplays nil assocTextDisplays nil needRefresh nil netCount 2 anyInstCount 2 termCount 0 clusters nil prBoundary nil snapBoundary nil viaHeaders nil viaMasters nil routes nil steiners nil blockages nil vias nil guides nil sitePattern nil areaBoundaries nil figGroups nil gCellPatterns nil)

CellViewType2--
(type ddViewType name "schematic" lastModify "Feb  6 14:11:24 2012" owner "cclauson" ownerAccess "rwx" group 100 groupAccess "rx" publicAccess "rx" isReadable t isWritable t prop (db:0x0f73ca12) lib dd:0x109d4688 cell dd:0x10a01884 files (dd:0x10a021ac dd:0x10a021ec dd:0x10a019a4))

Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks!  This was definitely helpful to me.  However, I'm still having some issues.

The recursion in principle is not really a problem, what I'm struggling with is to do this for just one level.  The goal at this point is given a cell with a schematic, get all the other cells that have schematics and whose symbols appear in the original schematic (i.e., if there's no schematic, then skip it)  Here's what I've figured out so far:

getCurrentWindow()->cellView returns an object of a type that corresponds to a cellview (call it CellViewType1 for now).  CellViewType1 has many useful properties, including "instanceMasters", which gets all the cell views referenced in the schematic (which are also of CellViewType1), "cell", which gets an object corresponding to the cell, and "cellViewType", which is useful for seeing if it is a schematic or symbol.

If I can start with an object of type CellViewType1, and get a list of objects of type CellViewType1, then it would seem that I could now do recursion--but there's one catch.  The new list of objects correspond to the symbol views, not the schematic views, so the instanceMasters property won't work.

Now the task becomes, given an object of type CellViewType1, to do the following:
1.  Figure out if there's a schematic for the cell above this cell view
2.  If so, get the CellViewType1 object that corresponds to that schematic

If I can do that, then I can move recursively.

However, if I start with a CellViewType1 object, and use the properties ->cell and ->views like so:
mycvt1obj->cell->views
then I do get a list of cellViews that are its siblings--but the type is different!  I call this CellViewType2, and it does not have the "instanceMasters" or "cellViewType" properties, so I can't figure out if any of them are a schematic or move recursively.

I also tried experimenting with ddGetObj to see what it returns, thinking that this could get me back to CellViewType1, but it actually gives me CellViewType2.

Here's what the ->?? looks like for the two types:

CellViewType1--
(db:0x0f73d012 cellView db:0x0f73d012 objType "cellView" prop (db:0x0f73d492 db:0x0f73d49a db:0x0f73d499 db:0x0f73d496 db:0x0f73d495 db:0x0f73d494 db:0x0f73d493) bBox ((-1.25 -0.3125) (1.8 0.6)) lib dd:0x109d4688 libName "CooperTestLib" cellName "BusCellInst" cell dd:0x10a01884 cellViewType "schematic" cellType "none" conns (db:0x0f73ec92 db:0x0f73ec95 db:0x0f73ec96) DBUPerUU 160.0 fileName "/home/cclauson/CooperTestLib/BusCellInst/schematic/sch.oa" createTime "Jan 28 16:00:41 2012" fileTimeStamp "Jan 28 16:01:26 2012" groupMembers nil groups nil instHeaders (db:0x0f73ed12 db:0x0f73ed13) instHeaderRefs nil instRefs nil instanceMasters (db:0x0f73ea12 db:0x0f73d292) instances (db:0x0f73d792 db:0x0f73d793) isParamCell nil layerHeaders (db:0x0f73ce92 db:0x0f73ce93 db:0x0f73ce94 db:0x0f73ce95) layerPurposePairs (db:0x0f73e992 db:0x0f73e993 db:0x0f73e994 db:0x0f73e995 db:0x0f73e996 db:0x0f73e997 db:0x0f73e998) lpps (db:0x0f73e992 db:0x0f73e993 db:0x0f73e994 db:0x0f73e995 db:0x0f73e996 db:0x0f73e997 db:0x0f73e998) memInsts ((db:0x0f73d792 0) (db:0x0f73d793 0)) mode "a" modifiedButNotSaved nil modifiedCounter 90 mosaics nil markers nil trackPatterns nil rowHeaders nil rows nil nets (db:0x0f73ce16 db:0x0f73ce17) shapes (db:0x0f73d612 db:0x0f73d613 db:0x0f73d614 db:0x0f73d615 db:0x0f73d616) signals (db:0x0f73ce16) sigNames ("gnd!") subMasters nil superMaster nil terminals nil userUnits "inch" viewName "schematic" view dd:0x10a0184c textDisplays nil assocTextDisplays nil needRefresh nil netCount 2 anyInstCount 2 termCount 0 clusters nil prBoundary nil snapBoundary nil viaHeaders nil viaMasters nil routes nil steiners nil blockages nil vias nil guides nil sitePattern nil areaBoundaries nil figGroups nil gCellPatterns nil)

CellViewType2--
(type ddViewType name "schematic" lastModify "Feb  6 14:11:24 2012" owner "cclauson" ownerAccess "rwx" group 100 groupAccess "rx" publicAccess "rx" isReadable t isWritable t prop (db:0x0f73ca12) lib dd:0x109d4688 cell dd:0x10a01884 files (dd:0x10a021ac dd:0x10a021ec dd:0x10a019a4))

Thanks in advance for any help.