all_fanin is returning a point when set to a variable

Thank you Anurag.

Yeah! query_objects is printing the names of the fanin.

But it is not able to set the names to a list. I want to do some operations on the fanin.

index_collection is working but again if you set the output it is settting a pointer

get_object_name is working for me and is as below:

set lin [all_fanout -from [dbGet selected.name] -only_cells -endpoints_only]

foreach_in_collection k $lin {
selectInst [get_object_name $k]

if {[dbGet selected.cell.isSequential]} {
dbSet [dbGet selected].pt $PT
}
deselectInst [get_object_name $k]
}

}

Thanks and Regards,

Anil

I notice query_objects used to return a Tcl list, but that stopped at ETS version 7.1

As Anil noted above, it's possible to return the object name for a single_object_collection.  Can anyone help me get a Tcl list of the object names in a collection that contains more than one object?  I have a Tcl procedure I'd like to pass the list to.

Thanks and regards,

Anita

You can use set y  [lindex $x 0]  and work on y where x has all the names but it is considered as a single element.

x   1 3 4 5455 55     ---- considered as one elemet

y   1 3 4 5455 55    -------consideres as 6 element list

 You can pass this list to the procedure.

You can run a for loop and use lappend:

set lis [

for .......{

lappend lis name

 }

Regards,

Anil

Great discussion here folks.  I confirm there was a behavior change in 7.1.USR1 whereby query_object stopped returning a tcl list of object names when passed a collection.

I've requested a new command be introduced that will provide this functionality.  In the meantime, here's an example procedure that should do this:

proc user_get_object_names {collection} {
  set objectList {}
  foreach_in_collection item $collection {
    lappend objectList [get_object_name $item]
  }
  return $objectList
}

I'm curious why it's beneficial to have this functionality.  I can understand needing to crossover between CTE-TCL and FE-TCL, but not necessarily why it's beneficial to convert a list of objects from a CTE-TCL collection to a tcl list.  I generally either use dbGet -or- a foreach loop -or- a foreach_in_collection loop and don't need to convert collections to lists of names all at once.  If someone had examples where this was beneficial it could help me drive the functionality more urgently.

Thanks!
-Bob

Thanks, Anil and Bob.

In answer to your question, Bob, I was trying to reuse an existing tcl procedure.  I have since updated it so I can pass in a collection.

Thank you both for the support!

Anita