attach label to a pin as a 'children'

Your code doesn't the variable cv anywhere, so you're reliant on that having been set (and set correctly) before you hit the bindkey. Simplest solution is to put the line:

cv=X~>cellView

before the first dbCreateLabel line.

By the way, your code breaks if the selected shape has no net information - so you might want to change it as follows. Note that I added some comments with "AB" above some parts that I had concerns about (for example, the setting of the label type to ILLabel makes no sense - that's for interpreted SKILL labels, and these are not SKILL expressions but strings containing numbers. That will have no effect at level 0, but if instantiated, it would mean the label has to be evaluated every time it is displayed, which is pointless.

Finally, the code rather strangely has nested loops where the outer loop iterates over geGetSelectedSet and the inner loop iterates over geGetSelSet - both will return the same set of objects. I don't know why it's doing this, but if you have two rectangles selected, then it seems to stretch one and add labels on the other - I doubt that's what you want!

Regards,

Andrew.

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>[" "stretchAreax()")

/***********************************************
Stretch Rectangle With Constant Area +X
************************************************/

procedure( stretchAreax()
  foreach(X geGetSelectedSet()
    net = X~>net
    sSet = geGetSelSet()
    corners = car(sSet)~>bBox
    delta = 5
    ll = car(corners)
    ur = cadr(corners)
    dx = xCoord(ur) - xCoord(ll)
    x1 = xCoord(ll)
    x2 = xCoord(ur) + delta
    newdx = (xCoord(ur)+delta - xCoord(ll))
    rnewdx = round(newdx)
    dy = yCoord(ur) - yCoord(ll)
    rdy = round(dy)
    y1b = yCoord(ll)
    y1t = yCoord(ur)
    newarea = abs(newdx * dy)
    area = round(abs( dx * dy ))
    y2 = y1t - (dy-(area/newdx))
    printf("Area of rectangle is %L.\n" area) ;; Displays Area in CIW window
    printf("Length of Rectangle is %L.\n" newdx) ;; Displays Length in CIW window
    printf("Height of Rectangle is %L.\n" dy) ;; Displays Height in CIW window

    ; AB: this is a private function - should use car(geGetSelSet()) - or car(sSet) 
    ;     since you have it in a variable
    r=css()
    r~>?
    r~>??
    lowerLeft(r~>bBox)
    upperRight(r~>bBox)
    xCoord(lowerLeft(r~>bBox))
    yCoord(lowerLeft(r~>bBox))
    newBBox=list(list(x1 y1b) list(x2 y2))
    r~>bBox=newBBox
    string = sprintf(area "%L" area)
    stringL = sprintf(rnewdx "%L" rnewdx)
    stringH = sprintf(rdy "%L" rdy)

    foreach(selObj geGetSelSet()
      foreach(child selObj~>children
        when(member(child~>objType '("label" "textDisplay")) && child~>layerName=="text" && child~>purpose=="drawing"
          dbDeleteObject(child)
        )
      )
    )

    ; AB: Only create a textDisplay from the net if there is a net!
    when(net
      disp=dbCreateTextDisplay( net X list("text" "drawing" ) t centerBox(X~>bBox) "lowerRight" "R0" "roman" abs(dx/12) nil nil t nil t "name" nil) ;;Creates text label from net name of figure
    )
    cv=X~>cellView
    label=dbCreateLabel(cv "text" centerBox(X~>bBox) string "lowerLeft" "R0" "roman" abs(dx/18))
    labelL=dbCreateLabel(cv "text" centerBox(X~>bBox) stringL "upperRight" "MXR90" "roman" (dx/22))
    labelH=dbCreateLabel(cv "text" centerBox(X~>bBox) stringH "upperLeft" "MYR90" "roman" (dx/22))
    leAttachFig(label r)
    leAttachFig(labelL r)
    leAttachFig(labelH r)
    ; AB: these next three lines are superflous (incorrect, really)
    label~>labelType="ILLabel" ;;Creates text label with area of figure
    labelL~>labelType="ILLabel" ;;Creates text label with area of figure
    labelH~>labelType="ILLabel" ;;Creates text label with area of figure
  )
) ;procedure

I think Andrew's post answered the question well.

If you use SKILL IDE for development, performing a LINT over the procedures would have flagged warnings, such as cv used but never defined, etc.

Regards!

Hi,

    while doing layout If pin labels are moved away from its respective pins... How to move those pin labels back to its respective pin location? I want to write a skill code where i want to select those labels and to press a bindkey then i want labels move its respective pins..?can you please help me on this..

Please read the Guidelines for the Custom IC SKILL Forum . Rather than posting on the end of a (loosely related) 6 year old thread, please post a new question. Also don't post, then delete your post, and then post again as a means to get attention. It just irritates people if you do that.

Andrew.