need to get bbox of shapes from a abeLayer.

Leo,

There's no direct function to do it, but it's easy enough to write one - see this earlier post.

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I dont want all the shapes named in "layerName".

I already have filtered out some of the shapes of my interest in one of the abeLayer.

From that abeLayer I want the shapes and not all the shapes of "layerName".

Thanks,

Leo

Leo,

It's a pretty obvious change to the code to make this do what you want - surprised you couldn't just write your own code based on my example. Simply remove the initialisation and retrieval of the layer from the cellView, and you'd get this:

procedure(abGetAbeLayerBBox(layer)
    let((iter tile ollx olly ourx oury)
        iter=abeTileIterator(layer)
        while(tile=iter->next
            destructuringBind(((llx lly) (urx ury)) tile->bbox
                ollx=if(ollx min(ollx llx) llx)
                olly=if(olly min(olly lly) lly)
                ourx=if(ourx max(ourx urx) urx)
                oury=if(oury max(oury ury) ury)
            )
        )
        when(ollx
            list(ollx:olly ourx:oury)
        )
    )
)

Hi Andrew,

By looking at your code I realize destructuringBind can also split lists!

I guess I never tried it that way even though it is the behaviour I have been looking for and always achieved it with a second let...

It seems extremely convenient but its quite surprising as it is not at all described in the documentation

I thought destructuringBind was only a macro generating a lambda and applying it to its second argument (I see by expanding it in your case that it is also recursive!?)

Has it always done that or was it implemented in a recent version? (I plan to use it from now on but I don't want to lose backward compatibility with some previous versions)

Thanks

Aurel

Hi Aurel,

It's always been supported. I'll file a CCR to get the documentation improved - it's not great right now because it doesn't cover any of that and gives a minimal example. This is kind of the point of the word "destructuring" in the function name!

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

By "split lists" I meant hierarchical ones, I have been using it for a long time with flat ones

I will use it in more cases thanks to you

Cheers,

Aurel

Hi Andrew,

By "split lists" I meant hierarchical ones, I have been using it for a long time with flat ones

I will use it in more cases thanks to you

Cheers,

Aurel

Hi Aurel,

I filed CCR 2443771 on this. BTW for the benefit of anyone else, there's a video on the support site which covers destructuringBind and gives a few examples of more complex usage: SKILL destructuringBind function (Video) (I pointed the tech pubs folks to that!).

Regards,

Andrew