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Live updating of selected nets on a form.

rbahr

I feel to an experienced this may be an easy question.

Is there a recommended approach to allow the user to click on a net in a schematic and then fill out a form after? Rather than using something like loading a form and calling asiSelectNet in a callback?

The idea is to load a form which has the originally selected node. If the user clicks a new node, the form is updated automatically. The user doesn't have to click a new node to continue working, but if they do it does get updated.

  • Andrew Beckett

    You mean to continuously update as you select new nodes without having to press something to initialise the enter function (i.e. to prompt you)?

    If so, the answer is no. How would it know that you wanted to just fill in the form versus select the wire for editing purposes (say)?

    Perhaps I've misunderstood your question - if so, could you clarify?

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • rbahr

    Thank you Andrew for your reply. I didn't explain it in the best manner.

    Currently, the user selects two nets (before loading anything). They click on the toolbar icon, and the form initializes with the nets the user selected before clicking on the toolbar icon. They have to click an update button to clear the previously selected nets and asiSelectNet is called at this point to add new nets.

    What I would like to do is remove the update button (that only functions to callback asiSelectNet and clear the previously selected nets). If they click or shift-click the previously selected nets are cleared and the new ones added to my list on the form. You are correct that while this toolbar/form is active, they would not be able to select the wire for editing purposes.

    Thanks again for your help.

  • Andrew Beckett

    This is not (as far as I know) possible with public SKILL APIs. You need to do something enterFunction-based, which requires triggering a relevant SKILL function somehow, such as invoking asiSelectNet().

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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