How to select the specific type of object by coordination

Hi Wenckey

Something like these.

Hope this helps.

procedure( svx()
 cv = geGetEditCellView()
 x = 13.899
 y = 0.37
 
 foreach(via cv~>vias
  via_x = car(via~>xy)
  via_y = cadr(via~>xy)
  if( via_x == 13.899 && via_y == 0.37 then
   geSelectFig(via)
  ) ;if
 );for
) ;proc


; To select all object in that location.
procedure( sva()
 x = 13.899
 y = 0.37
 cv = geGetEditCellView()
 geSelectAll()
 foreach( obj geGetSelSet()
  x_coord = car(obj~>xy)
  y_coord = cadr(obj~>xy)
  printf("\nx = %L y = %L" x_coord y_coord)
  if( x_coord != x && y_coord != y then
   geDeselectFig(obj)
  ) ;if
 ) ;for
);proc

Best regards,

Marben

Thanks for your response. One problem is my xy is not the via's xy, it may be the center of the via.

Thanks for your response. One problem is my xy is not the via's xy, it may be the center of the via.

My naiv intuation says that once you have a subset of vias you can iterate over them and check whether their bBox includes your point.  Somethig like that:

if( car(bl) < car(point) && car(ur) > car(point) && cadr(bl) < cadr(point) && cadr(ur) > cadr(point) then via_is_over_the_location() )

bl: bottom left coords
ur: upper right

ZoltanT said:

My naiv intuation says that once you have a subset of vias you can iterate over them and check whether their bBox includes your point. 

However, as I said in the other branch of this thread, that's not going to be very efficient when you have a million vias (for example). Far better to use the region query functionality that is available as this is designed to rapidly identify objects in a particular region of the layout (this is used all over the place, including to identify which objects in the database should be displayed in the current zoom window, so it has to be very fast). So the dbViaQuery approach I suggested in the other part of the thread would do this much more efficiently. 

Regards,

Andrew.