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Drop-down menu disappears from schematic window, moving into layout window when VXL is launched

DannyR

Hello,

A custom Drop Down menu, skill based, for Virtuoso is showing OK when launching Layout or Schematic windows individually. When VXL is launched from schematic window the Drop Down menu disappears from the schematics window and moves to  the layout window. Upon loading Virtuoso I am loading Triggers.il file as shown below.

Any tip why will be greatly apperciated...


Thanks,

Danny

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; LAYOUT Triggers
 procedure(DRSetups(args)

  leSetObjectSelectable("Blockages" nil)
  leSetObjectVisible("Blockages" nil)

  leSetObjectSelectable("Boundaries" nil)
  leSetObjectVisible("Boundaries" nil)

;  leSetObjectSelectable("ruler" nil)
;  leSetObjectVisible("ruler" nil)

;  leSetObjectSelectable("Markers" nil)
;  leSetObjectVisible("Markers" nil)

  ; Turn on all Valid Layer
  leSetAllLayerValid(t)

  ; CAD Utilities
  ; Layout
  UtilitiesMenu()

 ); procedure


;  Schematic Triggers
procedure(schSetups(args)

  ; CAD Utilities
  schUtilitiesMenu()

 ); procedure


;; create a user postinstall trigger that automatically setup

deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil nil 'DRSetups)
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayoutXL" nil nil 'DRSetups)
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayoutGXL" nil nil 'DRSetups)
deRegUserTriggers("schematic" nil nil 'schSetups)
deRegUserTriggers("schematicXL" nil nil 'schSetups)

;;; VXL 6.1.6
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  • Danny,

    Two problems:

    1. Menus should be added via user menu trigger, not the user post-install trigger. This is the second argument to deRegUserTriggers. The idea is that the user menu trigger returns a list of pulldown menus, and "DE" takes care of adding them into the window. This is far more reliable than doing it via the post-install trigger
    2. You didn't provide the code for UtilitiesMenu() or schUtilitiesMenu(), and this is highly likely to be where the problem is. My guess is that these functions use hiGetCurrentWindow() to determine the window to insert the menus into - and that may not be the correct window when you are starting XL - because it is opening a second editor window. Again, this wouldn't be a problem if it was done using the user menu trigger approach (or even if the window was retrieved from args->window - although you really should use the user menu trigger approach)

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Danny,

    Two problems:

    1. Menus should be added via user menu trigger, not the user post-install trigger. This is the second argument to deRegUserTriggers. The idea is that the user menu trigger returns a list of pulldown menus, and "DE" takes care of adding them into the window. This is far more reliable than doing it via the post-install trigger
    2. You didn't provide the code for UtilitiesMenu() or schUtilitiesMenu(), and this is highly likely to be where the problem is. My guess is that these functions use hiGetCurrentWindow() to determine the window to insert the menus into - and that may not be the correct window when you are starting XL - because it is opening a second editor window. Again, this wouldn't be a problem if it was done using the user menu trigger approach (or even if the window was retrieved from args->window - although you really should use the user menu trigger approach)

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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