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error while setting bindkey

Rojalin

Hi,

I used the following code for setting entrylayer bindkey.

 procedure(entrylayer()

cv=geGetEditCellView()

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "Ctrl<key>1" "leSetEntryLayer(list(\"metal1\"\"drawing")cv)")

)

I am getting the following error:

SYNTAX ERROR found at line 1 column 38 of file *string*
*Error* lineread/read: syntax error encountered in input

 

Can anyone help in this.

Thanks

 

  •  Hi Rojalin,

    The leSetEntryLayer command does not accept the cellview ID as an argument.  The leSetEntryLayer command only

    accepts a layer/purpose pair list.  You do not need the procedure to set the bindkey just the set bindkey line.

    hiSetBindKey("Layout" "Ctrl<Key>1" "leSetEntryLayer( \"metal1\" )")

    Note: If the purpose is not given the command will default to "drawing"

  • hi, If i want to set pin purpose layer then by repalcing drawing in my above code it is giving error that too without procedure. what is hould do in that case?? Thanks

  • The syntax error was due to some quotes not being escaped plus missing spaces. If they had been correct, it would have failed due to the spurious "cv" argument (whatever that was supposed to be) - as the previous poster pointed out.

    Andrew.

  • hiSetBindKey("Layout" "Ctrl<key>1" "leSetEntryLayer(list(\"metal1\" \"drawing\"))")

    Andrew

  • thanks.Its working now.

    But can you please tel me why this slash is required?

  • Quotes have to be balanced - if you had a string "some string including "another bit" in quotes" - the string will stop at the quotation mark before another. Then there would be some free words outside the string and then a second string " in quotes". How would the tool know that you really meant the string to encompass the entire sequence and the quotes in the middle to be embedded? This is true of pretty much every language. So, if you want to have a quote within a quote, you need to escape it. The backslash is to escape the quotation mark and stop it being treated as a quotation mark.

    Andrew.

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