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How to implement maximise-button of "hiCreateLayoutForm()"?

JanDL

Hi,

recently I was creating some GUI-windows for Virtuoso (ICADVM20.1-64b.500.19) using hiCreateLayoutForm() skill function. Unfortunately, the maximise-button (second button from right at the top-bar; marked in green in picture below) of windows created with this command is not working for me. Here is an example code:

MyForm=hiCreateLayoutForm(
  'myLayoutForm
  "Example Layout Form"
  hiCreateVerticalBoxLayout(
    'myTopLayoutDefStruct
    ?items list( hiCreateOutputStringField(
        ?name 'myOutputStringField
        ?value "Hello Cadence Community!"
      ); hiCreateOutputStringField
    );list
    ?horiz_align 'center
    ?vert_align 'bottom
  );hiCreateVerticalBoxLayout
  ?sizePolicy 'expanding
  ?buttonLayout 'Close
);hiCreateLayoutForm
hiDisplayForm(MyForm)

Is it possible to get this button working (i.e. maximising the window to screen-size)?

Best regards,

Jan

  • Jan,

    That's a function of the window manager - it's not something that you need to code for. For me (KDE 4.14.8 Plasma on RHEL 7.6), the maximise works - although I get a huge form with the text in the bottom left. Not really sure what you're expecting or what happens when you say it is not working...

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew for your feedback. That's a good hint and I contacted our IT-support to look into this more deeply. We're using RHEL 7.9 with XFCE 4.12. I'll give feedback here, when available from our side.

    Nevertheless, this behaviour can also be observed with built-in windows within Virtuoso like the "SKILL API-Finder". There, the maximise-button does not work as well. That's why I though I have to actively implement trigger/function of that button.

    Best regards,
    Jan

  • in reply to JanDL

    Hi Jan,

    The cdsFinder is not an "hi" form anyway, and the maximise does work for me with that (although strangely it doesn't actually "maximise" to full screen, but that's probably because a maximum size has been set which is smaller than the screen I'm using). It gets significantly larger and occupies most of the screen.

    Andrew 

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