skill code in layout customization...

Hi Anand,

Your question is not clear - which "white error marker" are you talking about? It's not obvious to me where this data came from or what you expect to do with it.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Anand,

Assuming you're using IC61X, then you should be able to iterate over the polygons produced by the dbLayerXor, and then call dbCreateMarker to create markers corresponding to each polygon (and then delete each original polygon). If you're using IC5141, there was no separate marker object, but you can create the shapes directly on the list("marker" "error") layer-purpose-pair; CDB simply used conventions on layer names for special meaning, whereas OA has a separate object explicitly for markers.

So something like:

foreach(shape xorResults
  dbCreateMarker(
    cv
    "some message"
    "XOR"
    shape~>points
  )
)

You should of course check that all the shapes are polygons otherwise they won't necessarily have a points attribute. You may want other arguments for dbCreateMaker passed too (see the documentation).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

It works fine now.Thank you.

Regards,

Anand

Hi Andrew,

I have a query related to dbLayerXor() command. Wherein, it is required to mention the layer in which the 'xor' operation area  is to be obtained, say 'text' layer.Now, my question is, without taking the layout for edit, how do  I obtain the 'xor' area, say highlighting by  a 'marker layer' ?

Thanks,

Anand

One way to prevent the data being saved in the current cellView is to switch between the mode to "s" or "r" using dbReopen. Once you are done with the edits, you can close the data, discarding the edits automatically.

If you want to just deal with the created shapes, save their ID's and delete each shape when you are done. (I usually use the Y layers for these intermediate shapes) or open a separate scratch cell which you can place the output of the XOR and only copy the relevant data back to the edit cell.