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Drawing pressed key on Virtuoso Window

RicardoGV1

Is there a way of drawing on the window?

There are some solutions as the attached link which draws inside the cell, but I need to draw even if the user changes to schematic editor or another window.

 

and for the pressed key, also read an answer which said there was no code for that, but was a while ago. 




Update: I used autoHotKey on windows
5873.ShowKeyPressed.zip

Drawing logo in schematic view

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  • Whilst I can think of ways of adapting the code in the attached link to draw using "hilight sets" (geCreateHilightSet etc) which would then not create anything in the database itself, it would be pretty cumbersome to do this. You'd have to modify every bindkey to call another function, probably have a timer to remove the hilight and so on. I don't think it's a particularly sensible thing to do.

    Instead, try searching on google for "screenkey". This is a Linux utility (available for many distributions or can be built from source - it's on GitHub) which can display key presses in a pretty configurable way. I've not tried it myself but there are a few videos showing it in use - this seems a far better way of doing it rather than re-implementing this within Virtuoso.

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks a lot Adrew, I'll be posting here what I found in case somebody else needed.

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