Restoring an object after dbDeleteObject

If you don't have a dbSave in your script, you should be able to do an undo and get the inst/objects back.

If you are wanting specific inst/objects, you are going to have to write to a file or create a variable to hold the deleted inst/object value.  

The simple answer to the original question is "no". The closest is hiUndo, as the previous poster explained.

There's no dbCreateObject - you have to use the specific dbCreate.* function to recreate the object. Bear in mind that deleting some objects actually can delete multiple objects - for example, if you delete a net, it will delete any terminals on that net, plus any pins on those terminals (not the figures though). I think it deletes the instTerms too. So restoring it will not be that straightforward.

I'd really advise against any methodology which relied on deleting something temporarily and then restoring, unless that objects is quite constrained - i.e. it's a known type of object which you can capture the info about an recreate using the appropriate API, rather than trying to make this work for any arbitrary kind of object.

Regards,

Andrew.

OK. Thank you for the responses. The item in question is specifically an instance within a schematic so I can do as you say and just save specific properties required to reproduce the item (brute force but it works alright).

I'm curious, could you do something like create a temporary cellview and the set the cellView property of the instance you are "deleting" so that it moves to the temporary cellView?

tempCvid = A new schematic

inst = some schematic instance

inst->cellView

-> db.....the original schematic Cvid

inst->cellView = tempCvid

Message: *Error* unknown: (DB-370034): dbSetq: Cannot set attribute - cellView

Doesn't look like this is possible.

Correct, you cannot change the cellView attribute.  Using dbCopyFig() you could copy the instance to the scratch cellview:

scv = dbOpenCellViewByType("test" "scratch" "schematic" "schematic" "s")
dbCopyFig(car(geGetSelectedSet()) scv)

I've assumed that the instance in question is selected in the schematic, but if you are working non-graphically in that cellview too, you could use something like dbFindAnyInstByName() to get the instance database ID.

Hope this helps.

Lawrence.

Or you could use dbMoveFig() instead to move it directly from one cellView to a scratch one, and then move it back again afterwards. That's even simpler.

Regards,

Andrew.