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Error while setting a Bindkey!!!

bharath006

Hi,

 I was just lost in some asterics below while setting a bindkey. Can anyone offer me some help in finding out??

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>F1"  "(geOpen ?cell (getEditRep)~>cellName ?view "schematic" ?mode "r" ?lib (getEditRep)~>libName)")

this gives me error as

 hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>F1"  "(geOpen ?cell (getEditRep)~>cellName ?view "schematic" ?mode "r" ?lib (getEditRep)~>libName)")
                                                                                       ^
SYNTAX ERROR found at line 38 column 88 of file *ciwInPort*
*Error* lineread/read: syntax error encountered in input

But when I try only this part (geOpen ?cell (getEditRep)~>cellName ?view "schematic" ?mode "r" ?lib (getEditRep)~>libName), It works fine.

Thanks,

Bharath

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Bharath,

    I'm surprised that this was not obvious - you've got a bindkey expression which contains quotation marks (") and then you expect to just be able to surround the whole expression with quotation marks and it just works? How would it know that the string should not end just before the word "schematic"?

    What you need is to escape the embedded quotation marks:

    hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>F1"  "(geOpen ?cell (getEditRep)~>cellName ?view \"schematic\" ?mode \"r\" ?lib (getEditRep)~>libName)")

    Whilst I'm at it, getEditRep() is an obsolete function which was provided with compatibility with Edge (i.e. DF1). Since that release came out in about 1991, things have moved on since then...

    The function is no longer documented, and you should use geGetEditCellView() or geGetWindowCellView() instead - which you pick depends on whether you want the cellView being edited, or the cellView displayed in the window (the difference is only apparent when using edit-in-place).

    Andrew.

     

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Bharath,

    I'm surprised that this was not obvious - you've got a bindkey expression which contains quotation marks (") and then you expect to just be able to surround the whole expression with quotation marks and it just works? How would it know that the string should not end just before the word "schematic"?

    What you need is to escape the embedded quotation marks:

    hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>F1"  "(geOpen ?cell (getEditRep)~>cellName ?view \"schematic\" ?mode \"r\" ?lib (getEditRep)~>libName)")

    Whilst I'm at it, getEditRep() is an obsolete function which was provided with compatibility with Edge (i.e. DF1). Since that release came out in about 1991, things have moved on since then...

    The function is no longer documented, and you should use geGetEditCellView() or geGetWindowCellView() instead - which you pick depends on whether you want the cellView being edited, or the cellView displayed in the window (the difference is only apparent when using edit-in-place).

    Andrew.

     

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