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How to hilight a instance in layout.

Venu Ch
Venu Ch over 11 years ago

Hi All,

I have  list of instance ids. I made a pop window which will contain these are all id's. When I am select any one of them then that instance needs to hilight.

  I need to hilight a instance with some marker layer. Please see the some example screenshots how I want.

 1) is like dynemic hilight

Or

2)Hilight happens when we use search command.

Thank you,

Chandaka.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 11 years ago

    You can create "hilight sets" to do this. Search in the docs for geCreateHilightSet - there are examples on Cadence Online Support too.

    There's no way of using the dynamic highlight though - that's really for interactive "potential selection" indication.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 11 years ago

    You can create "hilight sets" to do this. Search in the docs for geCreateHilightSet - there are examples on Cadence Online Support too.

    There's no way of using the dynamic highlight though - that's really for interactive "potential selection" indication.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • aparul
    aparul over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    How can I make a label hilight in given rectanglular Bbox  in virtuoso layout ?

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago in reply to aparul

    You could write some code to do this? You could use dbShapeQuery to find any shapes on a given layer in the rectangular region, then filter that to find just the shapes with objType=="label", and then create a hilight set and use geAddHilightLabel to add a label to that hilight set (or use geAddHilightFig given the actual label object).

    Andrew.

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