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Selecting components in 16.0+ with SKILL

EvanShultz over 16 years ago

Hi all,

Part 1:

I needed to allow the user to select a component from the PCB and I elected to use:

comp = car(axlGetSelSet(axlSingleSelectPoint()))

I see from this post www.cadence.com/.../7432.aspx that Dave used

axlSelect( ?groupMode nil ?prompt "Please Select Component" )
component_dbid = axlGetSelSet()

Both would seem to get the job done, so what are the tradeoffs for these different methods? Is there an even more prefered method for user selection of components? Or are the above six to one, half a dozen to the other?

Now to part 2:

Although both of these methods work, it almost 'feels' like you're doing something wrong since you don't get the pre-selection highlight, which is default in 16.0+ and seems natural when the cursor is over an element. Is there some way to make the elements (in this case components) highlight temporarily as I hover over the element while running a SKILL program? Everything I can find will highlight after the component is selected, and searching for "preselect" and "pre-select" in the forums didn't turn up any answers.

Randy R over 16 years ago

One thing to check is what you are setting your Find Filter to. You probably need to have Symbol and/or Component selected.
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EvanShultz over 16 years ago

Hi Randy,
Yes, thank you. I am only showing the line which gets the component. I have the following directly before the line(s) in my first post:
axlSetFindFilter(?enabled (list "noall" "components") ?onButtons (list "noall" "components"))
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Grungy Remnant over 15 years ago

I'd like to bump this inregards to Part 2.
EvanShultz said:
Now to part 2:
Although both of these methods work, it almost 'feels' like you're doing something wrong since you don't get the pre-selection highlight, which is default in 16.0+ and seems natural when the cursor is over an element. Is there some way to make the elements (in this case components) highlight temporarily as I hover over the element while running a SKILL program? Everything I can find will highlight after the component is selected, and searching for "preselect" and "pre-select" in the forums didn't turn up any answers.

I too would like to know if anyone has found a solution for this missing pre-selection highlight. Anyone? :)
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eDave over 15 years ago

Yes, it is possible.
Thanks to some great work by yskics last month there is now a great way to get the current cursor location. Check out the post "How to get dynamic cursor's location?". Using this code you will be able to hover over a component and highlight it.
Dave
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Grungy Remnant over 15 years ago

Thanks a bunch for the pointer Dave. I'll be looking into this for sure :)

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