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Adding a new menu item to Allegro PCB Editor

chads108

 I want to add, or really append, a new menu item to the Allgro PCB Editor menu.  What is the easiest way to handle this without having to modify the installed menu?  Maybe someone has an example that I could follow?

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  • For design types (e.g brd, mcm etc) see the doc for the function

        axlDesignType

    For just dra vs everything else

         axlIsSymbolEditor

    For either of these you can use axlUIMenuRegister since you need to perform the test at menu load time. For these you need to use the  axlTriggerSet with a registered callback function (see example file below).

    I don't believe their is a easy way of telling the difference between product levels except using some of the dynamic underscore env variables (do a "set" cmd and look at the end of the list generated). Some are documented in allegro.men but others you will need to reverse engineer.

    To differentiate between SI and PCB you allegro t menu loading via the axlTriggerSet('menu ...) then you can look at the menu name in the callbacks 1st argument.Allegro's menu is "allegro" while SI is "spectraquest". You can look the menu example file in <cdsroot>/share/pcb/examples/skill/ui/menu.il.

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  • For design types (e.g brd, mcm etc) see the doc for the function

        axlDesignType

    For just dra vs everything else

         axlIsSymbolEditor

    For either of these you can use axlUIMenuRegister since you need to perform the test at menu load time. For these you need to use the  axlTriggerSet with a registered callback function (see example file below).

    I don't believe their is a easy way of telling the difference between product levels except using some of the dynamic underscore env variables (do a "set" cmd and look at the end of the list generated). Some are documented in allegro.men but others you will need to reverse engineer.

    To differentiate between SI and PCB you allegro t menu loading via the axlTriggerSet('menu ...) then you can look at the menu name in the callbacks 1st argument.Allegro's menu is "allegro" while SI is "spectraquest". You can look the menu example file in <cdsroot>/share/pcb/examples/skill/ui/menu.il.

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