To Access user docs (stored in unix area) through Skill & bind keys for internal tool integrated in virtuoso !!!

For the first question:

Let's say you have a form variable containing your form structure and a pdf variable (I use evince but you can use any soft to open your pdfs as long as its available from your shell: acroread, firefox, ...)

(let ((form (hiGetCurrentForm))
       (pdf   "~/my_doc.pdf")
       );
  form->hiFormSym->hiHelpAction = (lsprintf "(shell \"evince %s &\")" pdf)
  );

This will make the help button of your form execute the string "(shell ...)" which will run evince in a forked sub-process

If you want to link your doc from another place than a form please provide more details

Hope this can help,

Cheers,

Aurel

For the second question:

It depends what you want to do: if you have a free key, you could just use it to read the next entered one and run a custom bindkey function accordingly

You could also set some toggles to switch between the default bindkeys and your custom ones

Cheers,

Aurel

Hello Aurel,

Thanks for your answer but my query is little different from what you have suggested . I want to access the pdfs docs through menu itself (not from form) .

For Example :- I want to access my user docs by clicking on the doc menu defined in below Image :

Regards

Sonu

This menu seems to be a custom one, if you have access to the code, it is quite easy to modify the callback in order to open some specific pdfs

If you don't I guess you can still replace the Doc button with a custom one by hand but this might require some investigation

Hello Aurel,

Yes , its a custom menu & I have access to code . Currently on my side , I am facing following error while opening with acroread.

Firstly , I am trying at CIW Window & running the Following Command

csh("acroread path-of-file") or  I have Also Tried with ipc command itself but its showing following same error

Regards

Sonu

I guess you have an issue with your acroread install, this could come from so many sources I don't think I'll be able to help you there.
(Have you tried with evince [It is is often available by default and way faster] or firefox?)

Still you don't need to use ipc, the following SKILL functions should suffice shell, sh, csh or system
(system (lsprintf "acroread %A &" path))
do not forget the '&' in order to fork your subprocess otherwise Virtuoso will freeze until you close your pdf

Cheers,

Aurel

Hello Aurel,

Sorry for delay in reply . I  am finally able to solve the issue at my end with the help of IT people of my company . The issue was coming from the fact that some variables are not set correctly which was must to access the usage of acroread.

Thanks for all the help :)

Regards

Sonu