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skill function to open a layout view

malcolm70

Hi Cadence,

if I get the database ID of a cell view ( layout cell ) with dbOpenCellViewByType() , is there a skill function to open the cell in a new window ? 

I'd like to attach this to a bindkey to point and click to select a layout cell instance and open,  I know there is descend Edit and Read but I don't want to descend in case I want to select something in my current layout and copy that to the other window.  

Thanks

Malcolm

  • I use these commands to open a cellview and add tabs to the window

    To open the window
    wind = deOpenCellView(lib cell "layout" "maskLayout" winBox0 "r")
    swind = hiGetSessionWindow(wind)

    To add tabs to the window
    deOpenCellView(lib cell "layout" "maskLayout" swind "r")

    Paul

  • in reply to psill000

    Thanks so much Paul for this trick !  I had to slightly modify your statement to this : deOpenCellView(cvId~>libName car(selectedSet())~>cellName "layout" "maskLayout" hiGetSessionWindow(hiGetCurrentWindow()) mode )    where mode is either "a" or "r" .  but this works great if i want to drag and drop shapes across windows... I had not heard of this function deOpenCellView before.  thanks again.  Malcolm

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