How to get Windows Number? or how to Set a WIndow new Window number?

Hi, 

I don't believe that you can change the window id number, it is managed by Virtuoso directly

To extract it, you can do the following : 

;; My window shows 5(13) in its bottom left corner
;; It displays a schematic cellview and other dockable windows (also called assistants)

;; From support.cadence.com/.../ArticleAttachmentPortalt
;; "SKILL procedure to have only the window number returned"
procedure( getWinNum()
   window=hiGetCurrentWindow()
   window->windowNum
)

;; Other solution is to extract the number directly from window representation
(defun get_win_number (win)
  (atoi (cadr (parseString (lsprintf "%L" win) ":"))))

;; Current window (the one showing the cellview)
win = (hiGetCurrentWindow)
win->windowNum
;; => 13
(get_win_number win)
;; => 13

;; Session window (it contains the main window and the dockable ones)
swin = (hiGetSessionWindow win)
;; Unfortunately in my case the following does not work
swin->windowNum
;; => -2147483643
(get_win_number swin)
;; => 5

Hope this helps

Aurélien

Further to Aurélien's excellent feedback, most of the time you deal with windowIds (such as returned by hiGetCurrentWindow) - there aren't many cases where you need the window number. About the only scenario is if you need to construct a string callback (for something that doesn't support closures, say) which references a window id - in that case you might doing something like lsprintf("hiRaiseWindow(window(%d))" windowId->windowNum) .

Why would you want t change the window number? You can't do this, but I'm intrigued as to why you might want to do this.

Andrew

Further to Aurélien's excellent feedback, most of the time you deal with windowIds (such as returned by hiGetCurrentWindow) - there aren't many cases where you need the window number. About the only scenario is if you need to construct a string callback (for something that doesn't support closures, say) which references a window id - in that case you might doing something like lsprintf("hiRaiseWindow(window(%d))" windowId->windowNum) .

Why would you want t change the window number? You can't do this, but I'm intrigued as to why you might want to do this.

Andrew

alaylayla said:

I found that the hiRaiseWindow function needs the window number paramete

The hiRaiseWindow function does not need a window number. It needs a windowId such as returned by various functions such as deOpen(), geOpen(), hiGetCurrentWindow(), hiGetWindowList() etc.

I agree that windowID->? doesn't list the built-in attributes such as windowNum - it only lists the user-defined properties on the window. That's a bit confusing, I agree entirely. However, as I mentioned before you rarely need to use the window number.

Andrew