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Setting layout highlight colour/visibility

NickA

I'm writing a function that needs to set the highlight colour for leMarkNet. I am able to do so by copying what comes up in the log when changing the colour in the MarkNet options (sample below) and repeating it in my procedure. However, the hex number in red is different in every session. 

le0MarkNetForm->optionTabs->page1->markNetColor->value= list(ptrnum@0x58e7b180 112 26 "y2 (drawing)")

It seems that the red hex "ID" for y0/1/2/3/... are all separated by 0x10 (ie if y2 is 0x58e7b180, then y1 will be 0x58e7b170 and y0 will be 0x58e7b160), and I nearly got there by using this command...

le0MarkNetForm->optionTabs->page1->markNetColor->value

It reports this... 

(ptrnum@0x58e7b180 112 26 "y2 (drawing)")

...which I managed to use to calculate the value that y0's "ID" is, and am then am using that with an offset to try to set the colour. I can format it all back into a string (say "ptrnum@0x58e7b160"), as I don't know what data structure the "ptrnum@XXX" format is. I then tried to convert it to a symbol in the function, which may be the wrong approach...

le0MarkNetForm->optionTabs->page1->markNetColor->value= list(stringToSymbol(ptr) 112 26 "y0 (drawing)")

However, when I do this, it gives me this error... 

WARNING* Form 'le0MarkNetForm', scroll region 'page1', field 'markNetColor': Bad value (ptrnum\@0x58e7b160 112 26 "y0 (drawing)").
Cyclic value is not a valid icon or string-icon pair.
(ptrnum\@0x58e7b160 112 26 "y0 (drawing)")

Is there a better way to do this? 

Also, once I've highlighted some nets with leMarkNet, the y0/1/2/... layers still stay visible even if I set them as invisible in the layer palette. Is there a way to change this? My goal is to highlight a bunch of different groups of nets in different colours and then, ideally, to allow the groups to be turned on/off as needed to see different groups in any one view.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    I'm not sure why you need to do this. If using leMarkNet(), it has a ?markNetColor argument which allows you to specify the layer to use (y0 through y9). Perhaps you're using leHiMarkNet() instead though? If you really need to do that, then you could find the matching choice in the choices and use that (note, the FUNCTION in the code below should be a single word made up of "sub" and "string" concatenated, but due to a bug with the forum it doesn't let me post any message that includes it in as one word - a slightly bizarre bug I found a while ago):

    color=car(exists(choice le0MarkNetForm->optionTabs->page1->markNetColor->choices FUNCTION(cadddr(choice) 1 2)=="y2"))
    le0MarkNetForm->optionTabs->page1->markNetColor->value=color

    Andrew.

  • NickA
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Very much appreciate the reply. 

    > I'm not sure why you need to do this. If using leMarkNet(), it has a ?markNetColor argument which allows you to specify the layer to use (y0 through y9).

    Yes! That's exactly what I'm after, but how do I specify this in the function call? I am currently using leMarkNet(pinCenter), where pinCenter is the centre-point of what I want to highlight. I just tried leMarkNet(?markNetColor"y0" pinCenter) and it doesn't like it. I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong, but don't know where to look for syntax on this function.

    Also, is there a reason why y0-9 stay visible in the layout even if they are marked as invisible in the layout pallet?

    Nick

  • NickA
    in reply to NickA

    Don't worry, I worked it out! Using this works... leMarkNet(pinCenter ?markNetColor "y0"). Thanks very much for your help :)

    I'd still be interested to understand if it's possible to turn off/on y0/1/2/... in the layer palette after highlight 

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to NickA

    Hi Nick,

    Any required arguments (and the point is a required argument) have to be passed first, before optional keyword arguments. So you'd need:

    leMarkNet(pinCenter ?markNetColor "y4")

    You can find syntax by using cdsFinder and searching for leMarkNet, or in the menus in Virtuoso pick a Help menu and in the search box at the top, type leMarkNet.

    The layer palette controls display of actual drawn layer shapes, and these are implemented using "hilight" objects (not part of the database) and their visibility is not controlled via the layer palette.

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to NickA

    Hi Nick,

    Any required arguments (and the point is a required argument) have to be passed first, before optional keyword arguments. So you'd need:

    leMarkNet(pinCenter ?markNetColor "y4")

    You can find syntax by using cdsFinder and searching for leMarkNet, or in the menus in Virtuoso pick a Help menu and in the search box at the top, type leMarkNet.

    The layer palette controls display of actual drawn layer shapes, and these are implemented using "hilight" objects (not part of the database) and their visibility is not controlled via the layer palette.

    Andrew.

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