bbox values in menu

Paul,

It's really unclear to me what you're trying to do. I don't see why you would be wanting to store bbox values "in a menu". What does that mean? I'm not sure which menu function wants "a single coordinate list". The whole point of a menu is to provide a means of calling a SKILL expression when selected, so I simply don't get what you're trying to do.

Maybe if you explained your final goal it might become clearer?

Regards,

Andrew.

Sorry for the vague question.

I was trying to create a menu that stored the coordinates of pins/terminals in a schematic. With the stored coordinates, I could going to next/previous coordinates similar to the Cadence search gui. If I can't store the values in the menu I will have to create a global variable.I would rather not use a global variable.

Paul

Paul,

Maybe this toy example will help show how you could do something like this? The key is storing the info as a user defined property on the menu item (could be on the pulldown menu itself too - depends on your application):

procedure(CCFmenuBBoxExample()
    let((next)
        next=hiCreateMenuItem(
            ?name 'next
            ?itemText "&Next"
            ?callback "CCFmenuNextCB(CCFpulldownMenu->next)"
        )
        hiCreatePulldownMenu(
            'CCFpulldownMenu
            "Community Fo&rum"
            list(next)
        )
        hiInsertBannerMenu(hiGetCurrentWindow() CCFpulldownMenu 30)
    )
)

procedure(CCFmenuNextCB(menuItem)
    let((zoomBox ur)
        ;----------------------------------------------------------------
        ; Arbitrary default value if zoomBox property not set
        ;----------------------------------------------------------------
        zoomBox=menuItem->zoomBox || list(0:0 2:1)
        printf("Zooming to %L\n" zoomBox)
        hiZoomIn(hiGetCurrentWindow() zoomBox)
        ;----------------------------------------------------------------
        ; Do some silly update of the zoomBox property so that the next
        ; zoom zooms somewhere else
        ;----------------------------------------------------------------
        ur=upperRight(zoomBox)
        zoomBox=list(ur xCoord(ur)+2:yCoord(ur)+1)
        menuItem->zoomBox=zoomBox
    )
)

Regards,

Andrew.