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Insert wait time

Ejlersen

Hi

Does anyone know of a way to insert a waiting time in skill?

sometimes it seems like the skill code proceeds even though e.g. axlShell or runBatchFile commands are not finished. 

Best regards

Ole

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  • Hi Guys
    Its strange I was wondering about the same issue for the last couple of days

    Ideally I am running a batch program from my skill (updating all the dra files) then refresh the symbols inside the design

    but that doesn't work the way I imagined, allegro just keeps refreshing the symbols long before I modify the symbols

    so I thought about a scheme why not
    1. set a system variable using setx before calling the batch file
    system("setx timer=0")
    2. then call the batch file, the batch file has a for loop and it launches the allegro for all the dra files in the directory
    3. at the end of the batch set the timer1 to 1

    in skill launch a loop to check for timer value 1 and get out (the end of batch would trigger this)

    but my diabolical scheme didn't work since I am stuck at this point

    setx works fine and i can see the variable in my user environment
    but when i immediately try to check using  getShellEnvVar("timer") the results are nil

    it looks like allegro has to be relaunched to be able to read the system variable

    I would appreciate any comments on this or how to set and read the environment variable in the same session

    regards
    Venkata

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  • Hi Guys
    Its strange I was wondering about the same issue for the last couple of days

    Ideally I am running a batch program from my skill (updating all the dra files) then refresh the symbols inside the design

    but that doesn't work the way I imagined, allegro just keeps refreshing the symbols long before I modify the symbols

    so I thought about a scheme why not
    1. set a system variable using setx before calling the batch file
    system("setx timer=0")
    2. then call the batch file, the batch file has a for loop and it launches the allegro for all the dra files in the directory
    3. at the end of the batch set the timer1 to 1

    in skill launch a loop to check for timer value 1 and get out (the end of batch would trigger this)

    but my diabolical scheme didn't work since I am stuck at this point

    setx works fine and i can see the variable in my user environment
    but when i immediately try to check using  getShellEnvVar("timer") the results are nil

    it looks like allegro has to be relaunched to be able to read the system variable

    I would appreciate any comments on this or how to set and read the environment variable in the same session

    regards
    Venkata

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