How to mimic a click or selection on a waveform in ViVA

Hi Yi,

I recall this as a known issue (which was fixed, I think). Which subversion are  you using?

If it's the issue I think, even if you set:

envSetVal( "viva.specMarker" "visibilityMode" 'string "On" )

then you had to select the waveforms once to make them appear. This was broken in 6.1.6.500.11, but should be fixed in 6.1.6.500.13. 

In a faulty version, not sure you can fix it in SKILL. I've not checked, but I would be surprised, as it's a timing issue.

Regards,

Andrew.

Just found your case - I'll take a look, as it might just be a specific situation, not necessarily the above. 

Andrew.

Hi Yi,

Looking at this with the AE who's working on your case, it seems that it works in some cases (for example the data I tried it with, and some of her cases) but not others. We haven't figured out yet what the criteria are when it works and when it doesn't.

In the meantime I found that I can write some code which iterates over all the windows and sub windows, and selects the curves in turn in each window. From trying this in a broken release (IC616 ISR11) where I do see the problem, it does seem to solve the issue for me. It's using the function for the bindkey which selects all traces in a sub window, so whilst that's private, it's pretty safe, especially as this is a workaround anyway rather than a long-term solution until we can fix the real issue. That code is below:

/* abSelectCurvesInAllWindows.il

Author     A.D.Beckett
Group      Custom IC (UK), Cadence Design Systems Ltd.
Language   SKILL
Date       Sep 15, 2016 
Modified   
By         

Function to iterate through all ViVA windows and 
subwindows, and select curves in turn. This is to workaround
an issue where spec markers are not always displayed, even
if they are turned on and you have:

envSetVal( "viva.specMarker" "visibilityMode" 'string "On" )

This was broken in IC616 ISR11, and supposed to be
fixed in IC616 ISR13. However, in some cases it remains; CCR
1639141 has been filed for the remaining issue.

This does use one private function, but given that it's
the function used for the shift-ctrl-A bindkey in ViVA,
it's pretty safe.

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) abSelectCurvesInAllWindows.il 09/15/16.12:54:47 1.1

*/

procedure(abSelectCurvesInAllWindows()
    foreach(win awvGetWindowList()
        awvSetCurrentWindow(win)
        foreach(subWin awvGetSubwindowList(win)
            awvSetCurrentSubwindow(win subWin)
            _ddtExecuteAction(win->vivaSession "selectAllTraces")
        )
    )
)

Regards,

Andrew.