BindKey for probing

Hi Vasco,

What exactly is the error message you get?

Max

schSingleSelectPt()
t
_asstSetProbeColor(schSingleSelectPt() "y1" "drawing")
nil

Hi 

Vasco, the command you see in the log is just resulting from you probing a net.

This is definitely not the one to use ! It is private but its name is quite explicit : I guess it just tries to set the color of the probe you create

The functions you are looking for to use in your bindkeys are geEnterAddNetProbe and geEnterDeleteNetProbe

hiSetBindKey("Schematics"      "<Key>9" "geEnterAddNetProbe()"   )
hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "Shift<Key>9" "geEnterDeleteNetProbe()")

Cheers,
Aurélien

Er, there's no error shown? 

However, if you'd have done that, it would have given an error since schSingleSelectPt() returns t/nil and not a window id:

*Error* geGetAllProbe: argument #1 should be a window type (type template = "w") - nil

You could do it this way - define the bindkey like this:

_asstSetProbeColor(schSingleSelectPt()&&hiGetCurrentWindow() "y1" "drawing")

However, rather than using a private function, this could be done with:

geEnterAddNetProbe(hiGetCurrentWindow() '("y1" "drawing"))

which is entirely public.Often this function is on the "9" bindkey, but without specifying the LPP to use.

Andrew

Thank you for the Help, the issue is that I can't script skill code so I'll try to explain the functionality:

The probing activated with the key 9 is only probing the schematic, not the layout, to make it keep the probe in the layout I have to go to net-> probe and select a color !
I would like the key 9 and ctrl 9 to keep this schematic-layout correspondence. 

Please let me know how to write this in the bindkeys saved file directly so I can load it when I start virtuoso.

thanks a lot.

You could just use:

geSetCrossProbeValue("schematic" t)

Then if you press the 9 key in the schematic, it will also cross-probe with the same colour on the layout. Is that what you want?

If you really wanted to define the bindkey using the private function, you'd add this to your .cdsinit :

hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "Shift<Key>W" "_asstSetProbeColor(schSingleSelectPt()&&hiGetCurrentWindow() \"y1\" \"drawing\")")

Regards,

Andrew

geSetCrossProbeValue("schematic" t) loaded in the icfb works fine, what an elegant solution !

Can we do a "remove probe" for the 9 in case is already probed.

Thank you for the help.

You could add another bindkey (for example, shift-9 - on my keyboard this is "<Key>(" ) with: geEnterDeleteNetProbe()

Andrew