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Creating new attributes and sub-attributes

lkphoto

 Hi Everyone,

I would like to add an attribute, for example to a cellview Cv.
The attribute should have itself other attributes, and so on.
It should work therefore similarly to the well-known
Cv~>shapes
which can be called again like this:
Cv~>shapes~>points
or like this:
Cv~>shapes~>lpp


Summarizing, given a cellview Cv I would like to create MyNewAttribute, MyNewSubAttribute1 and  MyNewSubAttribute2 such that I can call them by writing:
Cv~> MyNewAttribute~> MyNewSubAttribute1
Cv~> MyNewAttribute~> MyNewSubAttribute2

I know the command dbCreateHierProp(Cv "MyNewAttribute") but I have two problems using it:
1. It stores MyNewAttribute not directly under Cv, but under Cv~>prop. This is just an esthetic problem since the command Cv~>MyNewAttribute still works, but the command Cv~>? does not show MyNewAttribute (which is very unpractical)
2. I cannot create MyNewSubAttribute1

How can I do?

Thanks a lot in advance for any suggestions,
lkphoto

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  • Andrew Beckett

    lkphoto said:
    Unfortunately, I do not find a way of doing same using the function dbCreateHierProp.
    What I am trying to do, is defining new types of ports. Each ports, has some properties, for example a center and a width.
    Each cellview Cv has multiple ports.

     

    You can't. As I said, you can't create attributes and new object types - you can use the existing props, hierProps and groups to store the information, but you can't directly use SKILL data structures (as Ted said) to store info like this. You could use those SKILL data structures in memory, but then store them as SKILL lists if you want to permanently store them on disk.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    lkphoto said:
    Unfortunately, I do not find a way of doing same using the function dbCreateHierProp.
    What I am trying to do, is defining new types of ports. Each ports, has some properties, for example a center and a width.
    Each cellview Cv has multiple ports.

     

    You can't. As I said, you can't create attributes and new object types - you can use the existing props, hierProps and groups to store the information, but you can't directly use SKILL data structures (as Ted said) to store info like this. You could use those SKILL data structures in memory, but then store them as SKILL lists if you want to permanently store them on disk.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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