hiDisplayForm issue

Hi,

It will be really hard to help you without your code or at least further explanation?

What is / contains the code.il file you are talking about?

Actually the error is pretty clear, it seems you are trying to display a form (in -nograph session !?) before Virtuoso is initialized

If this is unwanted, you should inhibit the form display. Otherwise you should queue its display using hiEnqueueCmd (or load your code by hand in the CIW shell, Virtuoso will obviously be properly initialized in this case)

In both cases you will have to investigate your .cdsinit

Maybe you can provide us with more explanation about what you are trying to achieve?

Cheers,

Aurel

library_name="mylib"
cell_name="mydesign"
task="layout"
sel='executeAll
deOpenCellView(library_name cell_name "layout" "maskLayout" nil "r" )
cv=d2qDfIIqviCB(geGetWindowCellView())
int=sprintf(nil "d2q_TaskSelect_%s_%s_layout->d2q_lpe_task_name->value=t" library_name cell_name)
hiEnqueueCmd(int)
int1=sprintf(nil "d2q_TaskSelect_%s_%s_layout->d2q_lvs_task_name->value=t" library_name cell_name)
hiEnqueueCmd(int1)
int2=sprintf(nil "hiFormDone(d2q_TaskSelect_%s_%s_layout)" library_name cell_name)
hiEnqueueCmd(int2)

hiEnqueueCmd("hiDBoxUser(d2qInfoDialog68 nil 1)")----------------------> This command is causing issue
hiEnqueueCmd("d2qStatusCB(library_name cell_name task sel)")

hiEnqueueCmd("hiDBoxUser(d2qInfoDialog69 nil 1)")----------------------> this as well

hiRegTimer("exit()" 1000)

This is my code1.il file and

I've no idea what these d2q* functions do (they're not from Cadence) but looking at it, it appears to be creating unique dialog boxes for each command. You may struggle to find out what the unique number at the end is because it's probably generated with a gensym and is dependent upon the number of times it as been run.

What you should do is ask whoever provided these functions to give you a procedural interface that allows you to do the same thing without needing the UI to be involved - that would be far more robust. The API may already exist under the hood to achieve what they're doing through the UI (it's always good practice to provide a procedural interface, and then have the UI call the procedural interface - it helps with this kind of requirement as well as for testing).

I don't think anyone would be able to help you with the specifics unless they're aware of and have access to this "d2q" stuff.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thank you for your reply,

One more quick question.
I am trying to send parameters to this function

QCLEFOUT_BatchRun( @key
    (libName "")
    (cellList list(nil))
    (viewName "abstract")
    (lefFileName list(nil))
    (secondLefName "")
    (cellType "custom")
    (cellClass "BLOCK")
    (cellSite "")
    (symmetry "")
    (bitBlastPins nil)
    (cellHeight nil)
    (xEncCnod nil)
    (yEncCnod nil)
    (guiMode nil)

)

but it tells me key is unbounded variable.

Did you print the code you used or the description of the function and its arguments?

I hope your code looks similar to the following:

QCLEFOUT_BatchRun(
    ?libName ""
    ?cellList list(nil)
    ?viewName "abstract"
    ?lefFileName list(nil)
    ?secondLefName ""
    ?cellType "custom"
    ?cellClass "BLOCK"
    ?cellSite ""
    ?symmetry ""
    ?bitBlastPins nil
    ?cellHeight nil
    ?xEncCnod nil
    ?yEncCnod nil
    ?guiMode nil

)

One more quick question.

I am trying to send list to the function that reads symbol then converts to SymboltoString, so when I tried to send values through the list, it is not reading it.

Is there a way to send symbol values through list?

Your question doesn’t make any sense - I cannot work out from your question what you’re doing, what doesn’t work or what you actually want it to do. Please provide some code which shows the issue. 

Andrew