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Automatically modify menu items in schematic editor on startup

johancsi

I am trying to redefine bind keys and menu items for some functions within the schematic editor as well as add another pulldown menu to the banner menu.  I have working code that does this if I start the schemtic editor first by hand, and it works well.  When I open up an additional schematic window, the bind keys and menu callback function overrides are all there, but the new pulldown menu is gone.  I don't want to have to run the initialization script by hand everytime I open a new shematic window.

The code to re-assign the callback functions and new pulldown menu don't work unless a schematic window is opened first.  I therfore open up a dummy schematic window, run my setup, and then close the dummy schematic window.  I think this is kind of a kludge, and it doesn't keep my pulldown menu anyway.  I also don't want to modify the menu files.  Is there anyway to run a skill script every time a schematic editor starts up?  I am running the IC615 version.  Below is the initialization code snippet that I am using.  I load this and run it within the .cdsinit in my home directory.

svID=deNewCellView("sandbox" "temp1" "schematic" "schematic" nil)
sv1ID=geGetWindowCellView(svID)

adCreateLayoutMenuItem = hiCreateMenuItem(?name 'adCreateLayoutMenuItem ?itemText "Create Layout" ?callback "adCreateLayout")
hiCreateMenu( 'adToolsPulldown "Tools" list( adCreateLayoutMenuItem ) )
hiInsertBannerMenu( hiGetCurrentWindow() 'adToolsPulldown 5 )

hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "None<Key>i" "adHiCreateInst( )")
hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "None<Key>w" "adHiCreateWire( )")
hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "None<Key>p" "adHiCreatePin( )")
hiSetMenuItemCallback(schAddMenu 'InstItem "adHiCreateInst()")
hiSetMenuItemCallback(schAddMenu 'WireItem "adHiCreateWire()")
hiSetMenuItemCallback(schAddMenu 'PinItem "adHiCreatePin()")

dbClose(sv1ID)

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  • skillUser

    Hi Johan,

    Another way to modify the tools' menus is to use the menus file approach, in this case there will be a schematic.menus file in the installation which is loaded by default.  You can have a directory named "menus" in your current or home directory that contains your own "schematic.menus" file; this can load the original and then modify or add to the structure.
    Your schematic.menus file could contain something like the following:

    ;; load the original Schematic menus
load(prependInstallPath("/etc/tools/menus/schematic.menus"))

     Take a look at the structure in the original file and you can see how to modify or build new menu items and menus...
    I hope this helps,

    Lawrence.

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  • skillUser

    Hi Johan,

    Another way to modify the tools' menus is to use the menus file approach, in this case there will be a schematic.menus file in the installation which is loaded by default.  You can have a directory named "menus" in your current or home directory that contains your own "schematic.menus" file; this can load the original and then modify or add to the structure.
    Your schematic.menus file could contain something like the following:

    ;; load the original Schematic menus
load(prependInstallPath("/etc/tools/menus/schematic.menus"))

     Take a look at the structure in the original file and you can see how to modify or build new menu items and menus...
    I hope this helps,

    Lawrence.

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