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How to edit/modify Help button in GUI using Skill

Drake96
Drake96 over 3 years ago

Hello,

Am new to skill language and learning it,
I want to modify the Help button in Gui, that when i click it revert to my local pdf path.

Suppose i have test_pdf store in local path /xyz/abc/test.pdf

So when i click HELP button in GUI it revert to my path not to cadence help directories.

How can i do it.
Thanks,

Drake

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago

    I'm assuming you're talking about a form you're creating yourself? This is covered in a section in the help headed "Specifying Your Own Callback for Help" - try searching for that in cdnshelp. Here's a small example:

    hiCreateAppForm(
        ?name 'MyHelpForm
        ?formTitle "How to customize help"
        ?fields list(
            hiCreateStringField(
                ?name 'entryField
                ?prompt "Enter something"
            )
        )
    )
    MyHelpForm.hiHelpAction="MyHelpCB()"
    
    procedure(MyHelpCB()
        system("evince /xyz/abc/test.pdf")
    )
    
    hiDisplayForm(MyHelpForm)
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  • Drake96
    Drake96 over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hey Andrew,
    thank you very much
    yes am talking about the local form that i have created.

    am referring to   this "Help" option.

    if i click the above help option am able to open the pdf file which exists in path  /xyz/abc/test.pdf

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