ADE - L and ADE-XL trigger

 For ADE L, the only public way is to use the following cdsenv:

 asimenv.startup sessInitTrigFunc        string  ""

This function will get called when ADE L starts. I just did a search in cdnshelp for sessInitTrigFunc - unfortunately the example there is wrong (it talks about putting a function in the .cdsenv - and that's just incorrect - sorry. I'll file a CCR to get that corrected).  But here's an example.

For ADE XL you can use axlSessionRegisterCreationCallback(). You can also use deRegUserTriggers with "adexl" as the viewType. The axlSessionRegisterCreationCallback is normally used when you then want to use axlSessionConnect to register callbacks on certain ADE XL events, whereas the deRegUserTriggers I would use if I wanted to customize the UI

Regards,

Andrew.

 Thanks Andrew!

 Using the definition: asimenv.startup sessInitTrigFunc        string  "" ,   solves my proble.

Best regards,

tyanata

Hi Andrew,

I have another questions on similar lines. Like we have dbRegPostSaveTrigger("Test1") and dbRegSaveTrigger("Test2") for all the schematic and layout databases, do we have similar functions for ADE save state.

we need to register trigger function to save state of custom tool along with the artist state. Please do let me know if you have any other method how we achieve it.

Thanks,

Shrikant

Shrikant,

Please contact customer support - I don't believe there's a public trigger to do this.

Andrew.

Hi Andrew, everyone,

Continuing the thread with my own experience : I registered one and the same trigger on the 'Save' menus of ADE L and XL doing:

In .cdsinit :

load "CheckLockADESaveMenu.il"
envSetVal("asimenv.startup" "sessInitTrigFunc" 'string "customCheckLockPostInstallTrigger") ;# for ADE L 

CheckLockADESaveMenu.il is (in short):

;####### Setting callback
define(customCheckLockPostInstallTrigger(args) 
   w_window = hiGetCurrentWindow() ;# for ADE L states, window cannot be fetched through (args->window)
    l = parseString(hiGetWinObjName(w_window))
    newLib = nth(length(l)-3 l)
    newCell = nth(length(l)-2 l)
    newView = nth(length(l)-1 l)
    l_bM_handle = eval(cadr(hiGetBannerMenus(w_window))) ;# handle to the 'File' banner, containing the 'Save' menu

    if(pcreMatchp("adexl" newView) then
      hiSetMenuItemCallback(l_bM_handle 'saveFileItem "CheckLockADE_XLSaveMenu(newLib newCell newView nil)")
    )
    else ;# state is ADE L
      hiSetMenuItemCallback(l_bM_handle 'SaveState "CheckLockADE_LSaveMenu(newLib newCell newView nil)")
    )
)

;####### Triggers registration
deRegUserTriggers("adestate" nil nil 'customCheckLockPostInstallTrigger)
deRegUserTriggers("adexl" nil nil 'customCheckLockPostInstallTrigger)

;####### ADE L & XL callbacks
procedure(CheckLockADE_LSaveMenu(newLib newCell newView exit) ...)
procedure(CheckLockADE_XLSaveMenu(newLib newCell newView exit) ...)

All works well on the triggers side, I get my callbacks executed prior to saving with both ADE L and XL... However, whenever opening an ADE XL view and starting a job over corners, I get the job pending. Whereas double-clicking on the test, opening the test editor, the job runs.
Interestingly enough, when restarting virtuoso commenting out the "sessInitTrigFunc" call in my .cdsinit, my ADE XL simulation works... but of course, the ADE L doesn't trigger on 'save' anymore. I don't think axlSessionRegisterCreationCallback() would help me there for ADE XL but I might be wrong.

I wonder if this is because I use only 1 trigger for both tools, or if I don't use the correct trigger types (adestate and adexl) or if there's something more to it... in any case, I can't fathom the reason why, so your guess/feedback would be much appreciated!

Thanks & Regards,
Matthieu

PS : I use Virtuoso 6.1.5.
PPS : ADE XL job distribution method is Local, not LBS

Hi All,

 I've found the error in the ADE XL job's log when the jobs are pending:

\e *Error* Error during configuration of remote session.
\e ("hiGetWinObjName" 0 t nil ("*Error* hiGetWinObjName: argument #1 should be a window type (type template = \"w\")" nil))

So, somehow, the hiGetWinObjName() doesn't work on the hiGetCurrentWindow() at ADE XL start-up. Could it be that it loads each test window in a session window and that it doesn't work at beginning since there's no hiGetCurrentWindow() yet?
Doesn't explain why it works when not calling the ADE L init triggers tough...

Anyway, I've added a condition "when(w_window then ... )" and it finally works for both ADE L and XL.

Thanks anyway,
Kind regards,
Matthieu

Matthieu,

I think the issue is probably because ADE XL initializes sessions for each test, but does so without a window - so almost certainly it's because your code is assuming that there's a window.

BTW, the deRegUserTriggers on adestate is probably not doing anything, because ADE L is not a "DE" application.

Regards,

Andrew.