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How does SKILL tell if the current window is in Edit-In-Place or Descend-To-Edit mode?

DanielDing

Experts,

I'm trying to place a ruler marker in a layout window, until when descending into sub-hierarchies gets complicated..

For Edit-In-Place, the top level shapes are still displayed in current window as I descend into a sub-cell.

But for Descend-To-Edit, and Descend-To-Read, only the current sub-hierarchy is shown in the editor window.

This means, ruler marker's coordinates need to account for hierarchical transforms in Descend-To-Edit mode, but not in Edit-In-Place mode.

So how can I tell the 2 modes apart in a skill program, to apply appropriate conditions accordingly?

Many thanks!

Duo

  • Andrew Beckett

    I suspect you don't really need to know that you're in Edit-in-Place mode, because if you use geGetEditCellView() you'll get the cellView you're editing and so any coordinates in that cellView will be relative to that cellView. You can also use geGetWindowCellView() to find out what is being displayed (i.e. the top level). If they're different then you're editing in place, although the deGetEIP(hiGetCurrentWindow()) will tell you when  you're editing in place if you want to find that out (I don't think I've ever really needed to use that though). 

    There's also geWindowToEditPoint and geEditToWindowPoint which translates a coordinate from the window cellView's coordinate system to the edit cellView's coordinate system and vice-versa.

    Finally, there are properties on the window object called e2dTransX, e2dTransY, e2dTransOrient, d2eTransX, d2eTransY, d2eTransOrient which give you the translation and orientation mapping between the two cellViews (most of the time you wouldn't need these though).

    Andrew.

  • DanielDing
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Much appreciate it, Andrew! This solves my problem excellently.

    Thanks all for making this forum arguably the best place in the universe for SKILL users!

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