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Viewing a shell ascii file and creating a shell path

jaleco

I am using the view() function to open an ascii file from the shell, but it opens the file in the form/window in Virtuoso looking at the tail end of the file.  EG if the ascii file is larger than the viewing window, the contents scroll down to the end of the file.  Is there a way to use view() to open an ascii file but have the first view in the Virtuoso window remain at the head end of the file so the user can then scroll down instead of up?

Also, how can we create a path to write to a file location and pull from a specified path location by getting a path string from dbFullPath() and modifying it?

I am creating a new file using the cell name retrieved from geGetEditCellView()->cellName, but want to write to the same path location returned by dbFullPath() - with the exception of the last directory location.

For example, dbFullPath() returns ".../MyLibrary/MyLayout/layout/layout.cdb"

I create a file called "MyLayout_newfile" and want to write to ".../MyLibrary/MyLayout/MyLayout_newfile"

How do I truncate the end of the path returned by dbFullPath() - losing the "/layout/layout.cdb" portion?

 

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  • My apologies and thanks again Andrew.

    I am using v 5.1.41, and I think you are correct about the autoUpdate being responsible for this.  When I use view(MyLayout_newfile), the form/window opens with the correct title, but is blank.  So I was following the view() call with hiEnableUpdateWindowCB(), and this updated the window with the file contents, but scrolled to the tail (almost every time but for some reason not every time...and did not matter if the file already existed or not).

    So this begs the question, how do I get my file contents to load in the window without forcing it with the hiEnableUpdateWindowCB() func?

    And - geGetEditCellView()->cell->writePath is just what I wanted - thanks!

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  • My apologies and thanks again Andrew.

    I am using v 5.1.41, and I think you are correct about the autoUpdate being responsible for this.  When I use view(MyLayout_newfile), the form/window opens with the correct title, but is blank.  So I was following the view() call with hiEnableUpdateWindowCB(), and this updated the window with the file contents, but scrolled to the tail (almost every time but for some reason not every time...and did not matter if the file already existed or not).

    So this begs the question, how do I get my file contents to load in the window without forcing it with the hiEnableUpdateWindowCB() func?

    And - geGetEditCellView()->cell->writePath is just what I wanted - thanks!

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