Drawing pressed key on Virtuoso Window

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

Hi Andrew,

As the "update" shows After your help I was working with autohotkey, but because company policies we are not using AutoHotKey or screenkey anymore.
So I think I'm taking the other option of modifying every bindkey. 

I found this thing which writes on the screen. Just have two concerns. I don't want to use those functions as the CIW shows in the attached video, Is there a way to access those script lines or is hidden by cadence?

and for the bindkeys, How do I save the previous bindkey function to rewrite it after the timer ends?







Regards
R. Gómez

I have no idea what that video is supposed to be showing me, but you can retrieve the current bindkey by using hiGetBindKey.

Andrew

I have no idea what that video is supposed to be showing me, but you can retrieve the current bindkey by using hiGetBindKey.

Andrew

I'm sorry, I was trying to show that using the short locator functions _lceHiShortLocatorAddVirtualLabel1CB()  and lceHiShortLocatorForm->tabs->page1->netNameCombo1->value="text"  I'm able to drawn the text on screen.

The thing is that this have some disadvantages If I call those functions net selector tool is activated,  then I must exit function after drawing every key and that I can't edit the way is displayed or placed. That's why I was asking if there is a way of accessing those functions to copy the functionality.

*also I'm looking forward to modify those codes because I'll use that functionality to create others scripts.

RicardoGV1 said:

That's why I was asking if there is a way of accessing those functions to copy the functionality.

We do not provide the source code of our commands. Some of them are in C++ and some are in SKILL, but either way they are not something we provide for customers to copy and modify.

Regards,

Andrew