How to create a menu icon for toggling via partial selection.

Hi,

Here you go

procedure( toggle_partial_via_selection_locally( @key (win hiGetCurrentWindow()) @rest _args)
  "Toggle Partial Via Selection in current window"
  win->selectPartialVia = !win->selectPartialVia
  )


procedure( toggle_partial_via_selection_globally( @rest _args)
  "Toggle Partial Via Selection for all windows"
  envSetVal( "graphic" "selectPartialVia" 'boolean !envGetVal("graphic" "selectPartialVia" 'boolean))
  )

Cheers

Aurélien

Hi Aurelien

Thank you for the help. It worked.

I just need one more help. I also want the same for mosaics.

I am also trying to put the icons on menu bar anyway with the help of SKILL because I want to learn how to do it.

If you could help me regarding that. It will be very helpful.

I am trying to find the inputs like "selectPartialVia"  in Finder. But not able to find it.

Can you help me how to find them. It would be helpful for future trials.

Thank you

Ganesh Doddipatla.

Ganesh,

This isn't a foolproof method, but in many cases you can go to Options→Cdsenv Editor in the CIW and search for something relevant. For example, search for "partial". Then in the Layout Editor, go to Options→Selection and check the Mosaic Partial Selection, hit Apply, and then the Cdsenv Editor should highlight what changed.

You can (in this case) use the same property name for the window as the cdsenv name.

Hope that helps in terms of "teaching you how to fish!!

Andrew

Hi  Andrew Beckett,

I know this has already been discussed but it would be very helpful if the Cdsenv Editor had those improvements : 

A description column with documentation for most variables

The ability to search using several expressions, i.e. the search string "partial via" should return all the variables matching "partial" and "via"

The ability to seach in descriptions as well

Usually I find the variables I am looking for in the support website.
Even if I find them in the Cdesenv Editor, I end up looking for the description by searching the support website using the exact variable name

In the current case I got (from Virtuoso Layout Suite L User Guide IC6.1.8 - Selection Options Form)

Via Partial Selection allows partial selection of vias. You can control the status of this option using the SKILL Command

hiGetCurrentWindow()~>selectPartialVia

Which is still a very limited info about the variable

Cheers

Aurélien

Hi Aurelien and Andrew,

Thank you for your response.

Andrew,

I am able to find it for mosiac as well using cdsenv Editor.

But now I am not able to use it for a different option that I want access.

Now I am trying to toggle between keepcopying and normal copying with the help of a bindkey while using the copy option.

long back you helped me doing this while drawing a rectangle.

Now I am trying to use same way to access copy options.But not able to access it.

It is still working during draw rectangle input instead of during copy function.

The code is as follows

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>sEF" "leSetEnv(\"copyRecursive\" !leGetEnv(\"copyRecursive\"))")

Can you tell me where I am wrong and how to correct it.

Thanks

Ganesh Doddipatla.

Hi Aurelien and Andrew,

Thank you for your response.

Andrew,

I am able to find it for mosiac as well using cdsenv Editor.

But now I am not able to use it for a different option that I want access.

Now I am trying to toggle between keepcopying and normal copying with the help of a bindkey while using the copy option.

long back you helped me doing this while drawing a rectangle.

Now I am trying to use same way to access copy options.But not able to access it.

It is still working during draw rectangle input instead of during copy function.

The code is as follows

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>sEF" "leSetEnv(\"copyRecursive\" !leGetEnv(\"copyRecursive\"))")

Can you tell me where I am wrong and how to correct it.

Thanks

Ganesh Doddipatla.

Ganesh,

The env var is called keepCopying not copyRecursive. For some reason the field on the options form is called copyRecursive (possibly it was called that during development), but you can see the keepCopying var changing on the cdsenv editor easily enough.

Andrew