SKILL API dbCreateTextDisplay()

The associate is the object that you are displaying a property/attribute of - i.e. the linked object to show information about in the label. The owner is the object to which the text display is attached (i.e the textDisplay's parent is this object). Having a parent-child relationship means that if the owner is moved, the textDisplay moves with it.

Does that help?

Andrew

Hey Andrew, Thanks for the quick reply. 

Here the object is any instance like a pcell?

Is there a way in which I can display a user given text in the layout editor at a specified location using some metal layer or base layers like OD POLY etc?

The associated object is an instance, or a net, or a terminal - something in the database with an attribute you want to display - so for example you want to display the name of an instance or net - and if that instance name changes, the "label" will display automatically. You can display it on a given layer as you wish.

If you want to display arbitrary text, use dbCreateLabel instead. In that case you specify the text to display as an argument to the function.

Andrew

I tried with dbCreateLabel, this will display the text with a '+' sign in the beginning. I wanted to get rid of that because I am trying to display say some 4 letters in a metal layer and without any space the next 4 letters in some other metal layer and so on but the '+' sign in between every word would look a disturbance for the viewer. 

That's simply because you have Label Origins turned on in the Options->Display. The + will be drawn for both labels and textDisplays if this is turned on - and it's so you can locate where the origin of the labels are.

hiGetCurrentWindow()->textJustificationOn=nil

will turn those off for the current window.

envSetVal("layout" "textJustificationOn" 'boolean nil)

will (usually) change the default.

Andrew

Thanks So much Andrew!..

Thanks So much Andrew!..