How to place report field and string field in same form.

Hi,

Are you using layout forms? They are based on Qt and make it very simple to achieve this kind of result

Are you using different field names? If not make sure all your fields have a unique name so they can be referenced afterwards. If two fields have the same name only one will appear on the GUI, this might be the source of your problem

(I don't think this is documented but you should definitely avoid some field names: 'name or 'type at least !

Otherwise you will encounter tricky errors...

I advise you to use prefixed names using underscores, this way you are sure to never raise this kind of error)

Here is a code snippet doing something like what you ask:

(hiDisplayForm
  (hiCreateLayoutForm 'my_custom_form "Custom Form"
    (hiCreateFormLayout 'main_layout ?items (list
        (hiCreateStringField ?name 'pin_name ?prompt "Pin Name\n(Full Path)")
        (hiCreateReportField ?name 'pin_results ?title "Results")
        (hiCreateMLTextField ?name 'pin_value ?prompt "Value")
        ));main_layout
    ));display_form

Hope this helps

Cheers,

Aurélien

Actually this is not what i want, I just wat to create a window just like SKILL API FINDER and in the list i want to list all my pins with various other information.
hiCreateAppForm is throwing error

ERROR IS hiCreateAppForm: Item "(reportStruct@0x28c6d5f0)" in this list of items is not a form field or field symbol and will be ignored: (stringStruct@0x28c6d5c0 stringStruct@0x28c6d5d8 buttonStruct@0x28c6d638 separatorStruct@0x28c6d608 (reportStruct@0x28c6d5f0) stringStruct@0x28c6d620)

The highlighted parts are creating problem

Here is my code

InternalNetname= hiCreateStringField(
?name 'InternalNetname
?prompt "Internal net name"
?defValue "Net_name"
?editable t
)

TargetPinname= hiCreateStringField(
?name 'TargetPinname
?prompt "Target Pin name"
?defValue "PIN"
?editable t
)

ListNetPins=hiCreateReportField(
?name 'ListNetPins
?title "List of Netnames and Pin names"
?titleAlignment 'left
?headers list(list("Net name" 200 'center )
list("Pin name" 100 'center )
list("NPN parasite model" 200 'center ))
?choices list(
list(1 "I0" "INM" "NPN_PAR")
list(2 "I0.I98" "INM" "NPN_PAR")
list(3 "I1" "INP" "NPN_PAR")
?selectMode ’single
))

sep1=hiCreateSeparatorField(?name 'sep1)

ResultField=hiCreateStringField(
?name 'ResultField
?prompt "Result"
)
Go=hiCreateButton(
?name 'Go
?buttonText "GO"
)

form=hiCreateAppForm(
?name 'TrFileForm
?formTitle "NPN Parasite manager"
?fields list(InternalNetname TargetPinname Go sep1 list(ListNetPins t) ResultField)
?help ""
?unmapAfterCB t
?initialSize t
)

hiDisplayForm(form)

Why are you putting list(ListNetPins t) in the field list? That's completely invalid and I've no idea why you think that would work.

If you just use the field directly:

?fields list(InternalNetname TargetPinname Go sep1 ListNetPins ResultField)

it tells you:

*Error* hiCreateAppForm: form TrFileForm, field ListNetPins: report field invalid in 1D forms

So you either need to specify each field as a list with coordinate information (see the 2D form documentation), or use a layout form as Aurélien suggested (which is far easier). I don't really see why what he suggested is "not what you want". It sounds exactly like what you want!

Andrew

Thank you Andrew and Aurelien for the suggestions and clearing my doubt and i am able to implement my code. :)

If you want to create a window (like the SKILL Finder), you can use:

win=(hiOpenWindow ?type "form" ?form form)

Instead of hiDisplayForm(form) but I don't believe you need this as it is more complicated than a standard form.

The advantages it gives you is that you can then set the window icon using hiSetWindowIcon and/or dock toolbars and other forms in it.

Thank you for the suggestions.

Also thank you on the code It helped me a lot .