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Toggle Instances Selectable With One Bindkey

buttonGuy

Hello,

I am new to skill and my problem is as follows: in Layout, there is an Objects palette that contains the visible & selectable options for Shapes, Instances, Fluid Guardring, Mosaic, Pins, Vias, etc. I want to be able to toggle the Selectable checkbox of the “Instances” with the use of a single bindkey. Currently, I have two bind keys set to make it selectable and not selectable:

z bindkey: _pteHiObjectSetSelectability(dwindow(‘pteObjectPalette2) “Instances” nil)·

Shift+z bindkey: _pteHiObjectSetSelectability(dwindow(‘pteObjectPalette2) “Instances” t)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks!

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  • theopaone

     You are correct with your statements, Andrew. I had heard about the performance issue but that was before I joined Cadence and I ignored it till it went away.

    I like Lawrence's solution where the conditional is eliminated.

    pteSetSelectable("Instances" !pteIsSelectable("Instances" "Objects") "Objects")

    I forgot that the three statements generate an error (price of being retired). 

    There were several cases when I an AE where the user added an additional clause and did not get the results they had expected. I remember being scolded by a customer when I sent back their code with a 5 letter fix, adding a then statement, ranting about how SKILL was such a "confusing" language. 

    "Always include a then/else"

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  • theopaone

     You are correct with your statements, Andrew. I had heard about the performance issue but that was before I joined Cadence and I ignored it till it went away.

    I like Lawrence's solution where the conditional is eliminated.

    pteSetSelectable("Instances" !pteIsSelectable("Instances" "Objects") "Objects")

    I forgot that the three statements generate an error (price of being retired). 

    There were several cases when I an AE where the user added an additional clause and did not get the results they had expected. I remember being scolded by a customer when I sent back their code with a 5 letter fix, adding a then statement, ranting about how SKILL was such a "confusing" language. 

    "Always include a then/else"

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