bindkey to toggle between leHiMarkNet() and leHiUnmarkNet()

Hi,

If the current window does not have a flag set with markNets then you can set it by yourself.

if(hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets then

  hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets = nil

  leHiMarkNet()

else

  hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets = t

  leHiUnmarkNet()

)

-Ramakrishnan

Ramakrishnan's suggestion of using a flag on the window object to keep track of the toggle state is the best you can do given that there isn't really something to tell you whether anything is marked or not.

However, the request is a bit odd. The functions both prompt you to click on a net to mark (or unmark) - so they're not really opposites. What if you don't click on a net and hit escape? What if you've marked two nets and then only one when you're in "unmark" mode of the toggle? That would be a rather odd use model.

I could (almost) understand it if you wanted to toggle between leHiMarkNet() and leHiUnmarkNetAll() - that makes (slightly) more sense. Of course, if you use the menu instead of your bindkey, it would get out of sync with the toggle status, but that would mean you just need to press the bindkey again to get back in sync.

Regards,

Andrew

Hi Ramakrishnan, the hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets cmd always return nil no matter if i have a marked nets or not in the layout. I wonder if this is related to cadence version i used, i have ICADV 12.3. 

Hi Andrew, yes i think i want to toggle between leHiMarkNet() and leHiUnmarkNetAll(). It doesnt matter if there is any nets being marked before. 

Thanks

Nothing in Virtuoso sets the hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets flag. It's Ramakrishnan's code that is using that to record the current state - whether the bindkey is in mark or unmark mode. So you'd have to call Ramakrishnan's code. So put this in your .cdsinit :

procedure(CCFtoggleMarkNet()
 if(hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets then
   hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets = nil
   leHiMarkNet()
 else
   hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets = t
   leHiUnmarkNetAll()
 )
)

Then set your bindkey to CCFtoggleMarkNet() .

Note, I didn't test this...

Andrew.

Hi Andrew, 

I loaded the code and set the bindkey but it always triggers unmarknetAll, I put a print statement inside else right after hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets = t to print the value of hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets, and found that it always returns nil. Also it never enters the if statement and only enters the else statement. The code wont work because it will never evaluate hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets to true even if i manually set it to true. 

I wonder if there is a way to find the previous cmd used so I can check if the previous cmd is leHiMarkNet() or leHiUnmarkNet() then i will set the current cmd to leHiUnmarkNet() or leHiMarkNet()

Thanks

The code works for me, although it probably makes more sense to be:

procedure(CCFtoggleMarkNet()
 if(hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets then
   hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets = nil
   printf("MARK NET FLAG=%L\n" hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets)
   leHiUnmarkNetAll()
 else
   hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets = t
   printf("MARK NET FLAG=%L\n" hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets)
   leHiMarkNet()
 )
)

(i.e. the mark and unmark net swapped around) because otherwise it starts in the wrong state. The markedNets property on the window is being set correctly - I can't really see how it would not do that because this kind of thing works all the time.

See what the above outputs for me:

CCFtoggleMarkNet()
MARK NET FLAG=nil
CCFtoggleMarkNet()
MARK NET FLAG=t
CCFtoggleMarkNet()
MARK NET FLAG=nil
CCFtoggleMarkNet()
MARK NET FLAG=t
CCFtoggleMarkNet()
MARK NET FLAG=nil

You asked before about getting the "previous cmd used" - well there isn't really such a concept. You can find the current command using hiGetCurrentCmd() - useful if you need to find the active command in various places, but knowing what has been run before isn't supported - you'd have to wrap the function in something that recorded which was last used. That's effectively what this flag approach is being used for in the code above.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Actually, it works now because i have hiGetCurrentWindow()~>markedNets == t which is not right. it should have 1 equal sign. 

Thank you so much for you help.

Thanks to Ramakrishnan