VIVA Skill Functions

For the first question, you can change the font used by subsequent labels (added with Graph->Add Label) by using something like this:

envSetVal("viva.graphLabel" "font" 'string "Helvetica,16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0")

For the second (assuming you're using IC616 or IC617) you can use saveGraphImage() - details in the documentation.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi José,

I don't understand why saveGraphImage() should "pop the menu" (whatever that means) - which version are you using, and what arguments are you passing it:

saveGraphImage(
[?window x_window]
[?fileName x_fileName]
[?exactcopy g_exactCopy
[?quality x_quality]
[?msOptimize g_msOptimize]
[?width x_width]
[?height x_height]
[?units s_units]
[?resolution x_resolution]
[?resolutionUnits s_resolutionUnits]
[?aspectRatio g_aspectRatio]
[?enableTitle g_enableTitle]
[?enableLegend g_enableLegend]
[?enableAxes g_enableAxes]
[?enableGrids g_enableGrids]
[?backgroundColor s_backgroundColor]
[?saveAllSubwindows g_saveAllSubwindows]
[?saveEachSubwindowSeparately g_saveEachSubwindowSeparately]
)
=> x_fileName / nil

Saves the graph as an image.

More details in the full documentation...

Andrew

Maybe I was using the wrong command. I was using _ddtExecuteAction(awvGetCurrentWindow()->vivaSession "graphSaveImage").

What I would like to do, is to save the file as a PNG having as name the that the one of the tab where the graph is being plotted. Moreover I would like this file to be unique, so if I have several  plots of the same window the name should be somewhow different, eg. ending in 01, 02, etc.

Best regards,

José

Hi José,

Well, that wasn't what I advised you to use - that's a completely different function.

I don't think you'll get to the "tab name" - well, you could use awvGetWindowTitle(currentWindow()) to get it maybe - but you could certain write some SKILL around the call to saveGraphImage() to compute a unique name easily enough.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I can't really find a way to retrieve the name of a tab, other way would be to retrieve the name of the test under ADE-XL. After that is it possible to concatenate the test's name with another string that could  identify the image with an unique name ?

Regarding my very first question, on the command that you've indicated:

envSetVal("viva.graphLabel" "font" 'string "Helvetica,16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0")

what does -1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 stand for, and how do I set the font to bold ?

Many thanks,

Pedro

PS: I am using IC616

The awvGetWindowTitle() approach I mentioned earlier would get the info about the test name from the tab if used in ADE XL. In my case, my tests are called "AC" and "TRAN", and depending on the selected VIVA window I get:

awvGetWindowTitle(currentWindow()) => "AC : opamp090 full_diff_opamp_AC schematic"

awvGetWindowTitle(currentWindow()) => "TRAN : opamp090 full_diff_opamp_TRAN schematic"

So ADE XL names the window with the test name and the test bench.

You can get the test names from ADE XL using:

axlSess=axlGetWindowSession()
sdb=axlGetMainSetupDB(axlSess)
testNames=cadr(axlGetTests(sdb))

but this has to be done when the ADE XL window is the current window, and it would give you a list of all the test names, so I'm not sure it's useful.

For the font information, this is covered in detail in the documentation. It's pretty easy to find, but if you bring up Help->Virtuoso Documentation Library, then make sure that View->Show Navigation is enabled (not hidden), and then search in the left pane for "Font String" (include the quotation marks) you should find it. Or you could search for graphLabel - it's pretty easy to locate.

Regards,

Andrew.

Well, I am most there.

I have done mystr=praseString(awvGetWindowTitle(currentWindow())":") and now I just want to take the first element of the array to pass it to the function saveGraphImage.

Best regards,

José

Thanks a lot Andrew for your patience. ;-)

Best regards,

José