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Toggle a grid switch

Michael Kolesnik

Should be easy, but can't figure out where it is wrong.

Lint score is 100.

Tried "nil" with and without quotes.

Purpose = Toggle the fb1 grid on or off with a bindkey.

Flow:

1. get grid visible status.

2. if on then turn off.

3. if off then turn on.

Problem: Turns it off but won't toggle it on.

code starts here:

procedure(MDTtoggleFB1( )
if( pteIsVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" "Grids") == "nil"
then
pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" t "Grids")
else
pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" nil "Grids")
)
)

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  • skillUser

    Hi Mike,

    You could try this, it worked for me:

    pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" !pteIsVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" "Grids") "Grids")

    Cheers,

    Lawrence.

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  • skillUser

    Hi Mike,

    You could try this, it worked for me:

    pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" !pteIsVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" "Grids") "Grids")

    Cheers,

    Lawrence.

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  • Michael Kolesnik
    in reply to skillUser

    Fantastic! works exactly as intended. Thanks for the very quick response. Any idea on my coding error? I want to avoid that in the future. I also have another function I am workin on and wonder if you can give some hints. Here is what it does:

    1. Select a clone and it highlights with arcs (like the schematic arc highlighting) all of the same clones.

  • skillUser
    in reply to Michael Kolesnik

    I couldn't see anything obvious, perhaps a (double) quote got converted into a 'left quote' or 'right quote' and this prevented Virtuoso from understanding the string as being complete - this happens when copy-pasting from other sources (e.g. email)...

    You would need to share the code for anyone on the Forum to be able to help with the second coding endeavor.

    Best regards,

    Lawrence.

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to skillUser

    What was wrong was that the nil to the right of the == should not have been in quotes (it's not a string, so it doesn't make sense to do that). It should be:

    procedure(MDTtoggleFB1( )
    if( pteIsVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" "Grids") == nil
    then
    pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" t "Grids")
    else
    pteSetVisible("Grids;Snap Patterns;Local Grids;fb1" nil "Grids")
    )
    )

    Andrew

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