Adding a new menu item to Allegro PCB Editor

Cool, I am glad it worked for you.  Certainly easier to maintain vs. having to remember to update the standard Allegro.men file.

I checked out your SKILL code.  Wow!   You have a lot of grid settings in the GRIDS menu, pretty cool.  I don't have as many grid scripts so I defined a function key to reply the scripts quickly:

funckey g1 "replay grid1.scr"
funckey g2.5 "replay grid2_5.scr"
funckey g5 "replay grid5.scr"
funckey g25 "replay grid25.scr"
funckey g.1 "replay grid100.scr"

Just type g1 on the Allegro command line to replay the grid1.scr.  I couldn't imagine setting as many function keys for all those different grids that you have but it is still good info any way so I figured I would share the funckey tip as well.

Have fun!

Mike

I believe it is possible to load a different menu depending on the tool you open but I haven't had time to research it further.   There are certain items in our custom menus that are only relevant when working in the Symbol editor or when running PCB SI.  It would be nice to load a different custom menu depending on the tool you open.  If you figure it out let me know.

Regards,
Mike

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.

 Mike,

 I was able to figure out how to make the menus load based on the tool being used.   Granted I only use PCB Editor and Symbol Editor, but it does work for those two.  I ahve attached the code so you could see what worked for me.

 Chad

 Hi,

is this menu skill also available for concept hdl?

 Best regard 

Jürgen