geAddNetProbe to current Window

Hi Roland,

This should work fine - I suspect you're not specifying the net name properly. Have you proceeded the name with a "/" (e.g. "/topLevNetName") ? It works for me, even if that net doesn't connect to the block I'm currently in. Of course, you have to have pushed into the hierarchical block from the top for this to work (otherwise it doesn't know what the top level of the hierarchy is).

Regards,

Andrew

Andrew thanks for the help, I have another question regarding the geAddNetProbe function.

Is there any way to use this function as a "db" function, meaning can I pass it a cellview id instead of a windowId? I'm scanning a schematic's hierarchy and trying to hilite all nets that contain a specific property.

No. The ge.*Probe functions all require a window id. I'm not really sure why you want to pass a db id since this requires a graphics editor window for it to be useful anyway?

Regards,

Andrew

I've tried to summarize what I'm looking to do in the code below. I'm looking for any way to capture  the "hiGetCurrentWindow" value of each cv as I loop through the hierarchy?

procedure(rfProbeNetWithProp(cv)
 let(()
   foreach(inst cv~>instances  
     if(schCV = dbGetAnyInstSwitchMaster(inst "schematic") then               
      ;scan all signals for attached props  
      foreach(net schCV~>signals
        geAddNetProbe(hiGetCurrentWindow() list("y0" "drawing") strcat(geGetInstHier() "/" net~>name))       
       );end foreach
      ;calls a recursive loop
        rfProbeNetWithProp(schCV)   
      else
       printf("Cound not find schematic view for %L symbol \n" inst~>cellName)      
      );end if     
    );end foreach  
  );end let
);end proc

There is geGetCellViewWindow() and geGetTopCellViewWindow(), but I'm not sure they're going to help you that much except for the top level.

It would probably be simpler for you to pass in the window Id that you wish to do the probe in to this function. Then when you recursively call your function, pass it down too - it's going to be the same for all levels of hierarchy.

Regards,

Andrew.