waive the question " edit/read/auto" when open a schematic from bindkey

Assuming you are talking about the descend commands - well, interactively you can start with nothing selected, hit "e" or "shift-e", then press F3 to bring up the options form and change the Target to "use viewNameList". Then click on an instance.

The primary purpose of the form is not to ask you the access mode, but which view to pick to open. If you choose "use viewNameList" it will determine the views in the order based on the View Name List in Options->Editor (or the view chosen in a config if you're using a configured schematic).

You can also set this by default by adding this to your .cdsinit:

envSetVal("schematic" "descendTarget" 'string "use viewNameList")

(note, you will still get a popup appear if you try to descend into an iterated instance - i.e a bussed instance; this is because it needs to know which iteration you are descending into for net tracing etc).

Regards,

Andrew

hi Andrew, thank you for the reply. If  I want to edit or read a different view, I can use SHIFT+E to open a descent schematic or other view in read or edit mode.  For most of the time ,designer only open a schematic view in read only mode, so keep answering the same question will be time consuming. I suppose such function is overlapped between the bindkey E and SHIFT+E. 

If you set the env var as I suggested, then both "e" and "shift-e" will descend without a popup form. If you want the form to appear again, you can always not select anything, hit e or shift-e, press F3 and then change back to "query user" or whatever the first choice is. Or change descendTarget via Options->Cdsenv Editor in the CIW.

Regards,

Andrew

If you set the env var as I suggested, then both "e" and "shift-e" will descend without a popup form. If you want the form to appear again, you can always not select anything, hit e or shift-e, press F3 and then change back to "query user" or whatever the first choice is. Or change descendTarget via Options->Cdsenv Editor in the CIW.

Regards,

Andrew

hi Andrew, thanks again. I try it and works for both "e" and "E". But is there any way we only disable the popup form for "e", but keep the popup form for "shift+e". I am a design engineer, so I need to modified the design often. If the popup form for "e" and "shift+e" are disabled ,then I cannot modify different views like symbol or layout.

This can be achieved by redefining the bindkeys as follows:

hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "<Key>E" "envSetVal(\"schematic\" \"descendTarget\" 'string \"use viewNameList\") schHiDescendRead()")
hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "Shift<Key>E" "envSetVal(\"schematic\" \"descendTarget\" 'string \"query user\") schHiDescendEdit()")

You might also want to redefine the action for double clicking the left mouse button which does a descend in "auto" mode when over an instance:

hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "None<Btn1Down>(2)" "envSetVal(\"schematic\" \"descendTarget\" 'string \"use viewNameList\") schHiDefaultAction()")

Otherwise double-left-click would show the form or not dependent on whether you had last used "E" or "Shift-E".

Regards,

Andrew

Thank you Andrew. It does work. Very appreciate. Beside that, Could you please help me on another bindkey writing :  if I want to highlight all the nets with the same netname on a schematic, how could I write the bindkey? Thank you again.

This is a standard feature, so probably doesn't need anything special. You can do one of:

View->Net Highlighting. If you hover over a net, it will show you everywhere that this net goes. For example:

Or if you click on the wire, and then double-click on it after selecting, it will select all the places the net goes (if that's what you mean by highlighting) (see all the white selected wires):

Or you can use the "9" bindkey (Create->Probe->Add Net) and then click on the wire:

Or in the navigator, you can go over a net and use right mouse to probe a net given its name.You can then pick the colour the probe is done in.

Andrew

Andrew Beckett said:

Or if you click on the wire, and then double-click on it after selecting, it will select all the places the net goes (if that's what you mean by highlighting) (see all the white selected wires):

hi Andrew, thank you. This is the function I want, but double clicking doesn't works on my side.  how can I write a bindkey to whiten all the same net?  thanks again.

The function you want is schExtendSelectPt(). So for example, I defined the "1" key to be:

hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "<Key>1" "schExtendSelectPt()")

I then can press 1 to select a wire, press it again to start selecting further (sometimes you have to press it 3 times - not quite sure why...)

That is already bound to shift-double-click-left-mouse-button (by default) and is also performed when you use double-click-left-mouse-button by virtue of it being built-in behaviour for schHiDefaultAction(). Not sure why the double-click doesn't work (maybe your double-click time is not well-adjusted on Options->User Preferences in the CIW, or maybe your bindkeys have already been overridden - you can check what they are via Options->Bindkeys.

Andrew

thank you Andrew. It is well working now.