Update the contents in Viewfile

win=hiCreateWindow(nil "text" "Show File")
hiDisplayWindow(win)
i=0
while(i<10
  hiTextDisplayString(
    win
    sprintf(nil "The number is %n\n" i)
    nil
  )
  i++
)

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks for your reply ,Andrew.

In fact, I'm writing a script,and I want to show the process log in the viewfile. 

And I tried your example above, I found I can not check the content if the text is too large in the viewfile when the script executing,and I have to check the content after the script finished .So, is there any solution for it?

Thanks for your reply again!

 Regards!

Nidon

Nidon,

I don't understand what your problem is - you'll have to be clearer or give an example.

Regards,

Andrew.

Oh,I sorry I can't descript the problem clearly.

For example,I write a code to stream out gds(gds1~gds100),and hope to show the information in viewfile.

And I tried the way you gave,when I executed the scripte.

The viewfile will display:

Export the GDS1----------done.(line1)

Export the GDS2----------done.(line2)

....

Export the GDS30-------done.(line30)

..........

Export the GDS1000-----done.(line100)

And when the script executing,I just see the contents from line1 to line30,if I want to see more contents(line31~line100),I have to wait the script finished.

The code as follow:

procedure(abWriteCellGDS(libName cellName viewName streamOutKeys suffix)
    let((template fileName ipcId)
        streamOutKeys->libName=libName
        streamOutKeys->primaryCell=cellName
        streamOutKeys->viewName=viewName
        streamOutKeys->outFile=strcat(cellName suffix)
        streamOutKeys->errFile=strcat("PIPO_" cellName ".LOG")

        hiTextDisplayString(
              gds_info
              sprintf(nil "Writing GDS for %s/%s/%s to %s\n"  libName cellName viewName   streamOutKeys->outFile)
              nil )

        fileName=makeTempFileName("/tmp/writeCellGDS")
        template=outfile(fileName)
        fprintf(template "streamOutKeys='%L\n" streamOutKeys)
        close(template)
        ipcId=ipcBeginProcess(strcat("pipo strmout " fileName))
        ipcWait(ipcId)
        deleteFile(fileName)
    ) ; let
) ; procedure

gds_info=hiCreateWindow(nil "text" "Show File")
hiDisplayWindow(gds_info)

         foreach(cell ddGetObj(libName)~>cells
            when(ddGetObj(libName cell~>name viewName "master.tag")
                abWriteCellGDS(libName cell~>name viewName streamOutKeys suffix)
            ) ; when
        ) ; foreach

Two things you want here:

         hiTextDisplayString(
              gds_info
              sprintf(nil "Writing GDS for %s/%s/%s to %s\n"  libName cellName viewName   streamOutKeys->outFile)
              nil
              ; additional arg t ensures that it scrolls to bottom
              t)
        ; ensure window gets repainted if damaged (e.g. obscured)
        hiFlush()

It will work with just the additional t in the hiTextDisplayString(), but it's better with the hiFlush() too as that means that if the log window gets obscured and then uncovered again, it repairs the contents.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thank you Andrew,it what I wanted

Thanka a lot~

Hi Andrew,

I have write a script to run pvs and used system command to run. I have directed pvs log into the file netlist_log_file.

This is my command to run pvs.

system( strcat("ipvs -nograph -any_flow -svs -preset " file_name " >& ./netlist_log_file"))

Now I need a gui to view this log file. I have tried creating text window, read each line from the log file and print it on the gui.

There are 2 drawbacks in  that method:

1.The textdisplay will executes only after system command completes.( I need to view the log file when the pvs runs)

2.The log file is large(aruond 7K lines) so reading each line and printing it will take time.

Once this completes I need to run the pvs for different cell and the same gui should continue to display as the netlist_log_file gets over written.

Can you help me on this?

Thanks

Harish

Hi Harish,

The easiest would be to use view("./netlist_log_file" nil nil t)

This will auto-update as the file changes.

Andrew.