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How to add an "Email Image" button to Export Image form in Schematic Editor?

tweeks

The schematic editor's Export Image form already lets you "Save to File" and "Copy to Clipboard".  I'd like to add another button "Email to Me" that would dump the image to a file using the settings in the form and call an existing shell script to mail the file to the user.

 What's the easiest way to achieve this effect? 

 

I'd like to use a technique like the one in http://www.cadence.com/forums/p/13412/20801.aspx#20801, but there are two problems:

 

1. I didn't create the form in the first place (it's built in to Virtuoso), and

2. "Export Image" is not a form:

hiIsForm(ExportImageDialog) => nil

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  • dmay

    Historically, one of the greatest features of Skill and Cadence tools has been the ability for CAD developers to patch and work around bugs and customize tools to meet specific customer needs. This allows us to get the tool to work just like we need it without requiring Cadence to enhance the tool. It also often allows us to make a change with minimal effort. We can "hijack" a form without having to rewrite the function from scratch. These new forms make our job even harder. In our eyes we see the "lucky side effect" feature that we have had for 20 years is being taken away.

    IMO

    Derek

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  • dmay

    Historically, one of the greatest features of Skill and Cadence tools has been the ability for CAD developers to patch and work around bugs and customize tools to meet specific customer needs. This allows us to get the tool to work just like we need it without requiring Cadence to enhance the tool. It also often allows us to make a change with minimal effort. We can "hijack" a form without having to rewrite the function from scratch. These new forms make our job even harder. In our eyes we see the "lucky side effect" feature that we have had for 20 years is being taken away.

    IMO

    Derek

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