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How to get dynamic cursor's location?

leonlee

Hello everybody,

 I'd like to get the dynamic cursor location in a program, and take it as a variant. But I can't find the command or solution.

 Is there any SKILL command, which returns dynamic cursor's xy location? Like as AxlEnterPoint or AxlLastPick to get the point data .

Have a good day!

  • Yes. 16.x only.

    Yskics,

    Great tool, thanks for sharing it. 

    I have included your dll call in an application (to add a layer window coupon). There seems to be a memory leak somewhere. The problem may well be with my Skill code but I suspect the leak is in the dll. Have you seen any similar problems?

    Regards, Dave

  • Dave,

    I run this skill about 2000 times, and nothing had happened. I am sorry that I am not so familier with Skill, could you tell me what happened when the leakage occurs, did your prog collapsed? And how to find out that there is a mem leakage, is there some SKILL function which monitors memory?

    BTW, I am interested in your application, what the layer window coupon looks like?

  • Hi,

    It's good to hear that you haven't had problems. I can now discount that as the cause of my problems.I have ages trying to discover why Allegro crashes running my utility. I think the problem may be related to my use of the axlDBCreateSymbolSkeleton command - not the cursor location utility.

    Because Allegro just crashes, I don't get a chance to analyse the problem as well as I would like - and I don't have any memory analysis tools.

    Attached is an image showing the use of my layer window tool. It calculates a "layer window" with one rectangle and layer number for each board layer. Thanks to your utility I can automatically rotate the cursor dynamics depending on which edge of the board the cursor is hovering over. I then highlight the cursor graphics, when a valid location is found, and the user can drop the symbol onto the board edge. It also handles negative layers and eats back any anti-etch lines

    Dave

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