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Skill command to create custom color definition for Virtuoso

TeeBro

Hi,

I have an application that will highlight a net within a layout much like the Assura probing app.  The problem is the highlight is not very viewable.  I have written code to change the Cadence hiLite colors to be more viewable ( ie thickLine, stipple, etc ) but what I really want is for the color to "blink".  I need to create a custom color definition that blinks.  I can create the color using drMakeColor but there is not an option to make it blink.  So far the only way I have been able to create the blink colors is to define them in a drf file and read it in with drLoadDrf.  Example:  drDefineColor( (display    blinkRed   255   0   0   t ) ).

Is there any way to create this color without loading a drf file?

 

Thanks

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  • Andrew Beckett

    As I said earlier, drMakeColor is PRIVATE. This means it is not documented (I checked both IC5141 and IC615 documentation, and the only place it is documented is in the "Cadence Integrator's Toolkit Database Reference" manual, which as I said is the C interface to the Virtuoso database (for standalone applications). Just because a function exists in ITK DB, does not mean that a SKILL function with the same name is public. As I also said before, there is no SKILL equivalent of the C ITKDB function drSetColorBlink, so it's hardly surprising it says that the function is not defined.

    You should not use private functions because they may get changed or removed without notice. Similarly we do not provide support on them.

    Lawrence's suggestion and code was a good idea though - provided you have the blinking colors defined, you can then use drSetPacket to alter the color to be one of your predefined blinking colors - then you can make a layer blink or not blink on the fly.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    As I said earlier, drMakeColor is PRIVATE. This means it is not documented (I checked both IC5141 and IC615 documentation, and the only place it is documented is in the "Cadence Integrator's Toolkit Database Reference" manual, which as I said is the C interface to the Virtuoso database (for standalone applications). Just because a function exists in ITK DB, does not mean that a SKILL function with the same name is public. As I also said before, there is no SKILL equivalent of the C ITKDB function drSetColorBlink, so it's hardly surprising it says that the function is not defined.

    You should not use private functions because they may get changed or removed without notice. Similarly we do not provide support on them.

    Lawrence's suggestion and code was a good idea though - provided you have the blinking colors defined, you can then use drSetPacket to alter the color to be one of your predefined blinking colors - then you can make a layer blink or not blink on the fly.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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