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question about geAddHilightRectangle

mctang

Hi All,

I would like to use "geAddHilightRectangle" to create a rectangle in Virtuoso based on the criteria. I need 10 different colors for highlight layer.

How do I know how many highlight layers are defined and supported by Virtuso techfile ? Is there any document for it ?

Thanks,

ManChak 

  • Hi All,

    I added more comment to clarify my question.

    The user manual has the following example. My question is "layer" and "purpose1" needed to be defined by techfile writer, or are there Virtuo so system layers for highlight layers ? I need 10 different colored layers. 

    geCreateHilightSet( cell3 list("layer1" "purpose1") nil )

    Creates a highlight set in cell3 on layer1 with purpose1 and adds the set to the global list.

    Thanks,

    ManChak

  • Hi ManChak,

    You can use the system layers "y0"-"y9" on purpose "drawing" for this sort of thing:

    hlSet = geCreateHilightSet(geGetEditCellView() list("y0" "drawing") nil)
hlSet->enable = t
geAddHilightRectangle(hlSet list(0:0 0.5:0.5))

    You can also use geSetHilightSetHaloParameters() to make the hilight into a halo.

    Hopefully this helps!

    Lawrence.

  • Hi Lawrence,

    Thank you for your info.

    I will try it.

    Thanks,

    ManChak

  • Hi  Lawrence,

    What is the purpose of "hlSet->enable = t" ? Is there any document which provides detailed information about highlight set ID ?

    You command works, but I am just curious about properties of hlSet database ID.

    hlSet = geCreateHilightSet(geGetEditCellView() list("y0" "drawing") nil)
    hlSet->enable = t

    Thanks,

    ManChak

  • If you don't 'enable' the highlight set then you won't see the highlight shapes. This is also a useful way to turn on or off the whole set of annotations. Have you tried looking at the documentation for the ge.*Hilight commands, I would think most things are covered there (I have not looked recently though) ? Cheers, Lawrence.

  • Lawrence is right (of course). The information about which (public) attributes of the highlight set object are available are covered in the documentation. It's in the <ICinstDir>/doc/skdfref/skdfref.pdf file, or you could use Help in Virtuoso (or run cdnshelp) and search for geCreateHilightSet and then move back to the beginning of the section on highlight-related functions.

    We don't fully document all the slots available on the object to allow us freedom to change the implementation - however, the enable attribute is clearly documented and expected that you'll use this to enable the display of the highlight set once you've added everything you need to the set.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Hi Andrew and  Lawrence,

    Thank you fro your help.

    ManChak

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