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Display text in layout window prompt line

TaherKotb

Hello,

i need to display text in the prompt line of the layout window, i tried to do it as shown;

 procedure( tprompt

?prompts " point at the location to place M1  "

);end_procedure

 But instead, the text is printed in prompt line of CIW. What i am missing ? 

 Thanks in advance

Best Regards

Taher 

  • StefanSL

     Hi   Taher,

    i asked the same some time ago, have a look at my post

    http://www.cadence.com/Community/forums/p/17584/1247322.aspx

    --> setPrompts("my message" "")

    refer to sklangref

    hope this helps

    Stefan

  • TaherKotb
    Hi Stefan Thanks alot for the help, it works exactly the way i want. Best Regards
  • skillUser

    Hi Taher,

    You may also want to look at or consider the "enter" functions that allow you to temporarily set the prompt during a command that gathers data - for example enterPoints, enterPath, enterPolygon...  Each of the enter functions accepts a ?prompts argument for this purpose.

    I hope that this helps you.

    regards,

    Lawrence.

  • TaherKotb

    Hello Lawrence,

     Thanks for your reply.

    I tried to look for a function to temporarily display the text in the prompt line just like the enter functions but i couldn't find one. My Case with different than in gathering data, i need to display the text between procedures so that only factor i am waiting for is for the code to exit executing certain procedure. So i used the setPrompts() inside if loops to solve temporary display issue.

     Best Regards 

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