PGtext in nograph mode

Yes, this is possible of course. I have no idea which "PGtext.il" you're referring to, so I don't know whether the code supports doing this without a graphical environment or whether the code would need changing to support that. Either way, it's possible.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew, I'm very sorry. I assumed the PGtext.il SKILL code that I have was sourced from Cadence, but it must not have been. That said, short of me converting my legacy code to nograph commands, is there any SKILL code already out there that would generate polygon text in nograph mode? I have found leCreatePGtext() and a description of the Turbo Toolbox, but it all appears to require a graphics session to be open ( eg "le" commands).

It might have originated from Cadence, but I have no way of knowing that! I have a file called PGtext.il which was written by Terry Maness in 1992, but I don't know if that's it. This is ancient and could almost certainly be relatively easily modified to work in batch mode though - however, if I was to adapt that I would probably completely rewrite it because it's not particularly well structured and uses some very old "compatibility" interfaces (it was originally written for Edge (prior to DFII). Your PGtext.il might be something different altogether.

I don't have time to do that rewrite to a quality level I'd be happy sharing here...

There was some early adopter functionality to incorporate the old turbo toolbox capability into mainstream virtuoso, but even that seems to be UI-centric (and it's not been fully released anyway).

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew, my PGtext.il code is of similar age and obscure origin but different author (authors actually). I'll move forward presuming there are no currently available options for polygon text in nograph mode. Your info is greatly appreciated.

I guessed that must be the case because the version I have won't work in any version after 4.4 (9504) release (which was released in mid 1996!). I have a hacked version (called something else) which Lawrence (who also shows up here regularly) updated, but even that's pretty ancient. As I said, it shouldn't be too difficult to convert any code to work in batch mode with a bit of SKILL knowledge.

Correction, my PGtext.il actually does include Terry Maness' name, but not as one of the original procedure authors.

In any case, if it is helpful at all to others, the old PGtext SKILL code uses the vertex coordinate list of a polygon (create your own library of polygon characters and capture their point lists). Operating in nograph mode, use dbOpenCellViewByType(), and dbCreatePolygon(), passing the point list as an argument to create the polygon. The PGtext scripts and forms offer additional means of creating character strings, magnification factors etc. I am just updating mask issue level characters for this application, so dumbed my code down to the 2 listed db commands using existing point lists to create a single polygon shape.