Need guidance on how to select nets, pads, and vias with a certain property

It's tough to start your Skill life with something like this.

Here is some code to get you started:

red = listnindex(axlColorGet('all), '(255 0 0)) || 7

gray = listnindex(axlColorGet('all), '(190 190 190)) || 2

spacingConstraint = "TEST"

foreach(layer, '("ETCH/TOP" "PIN/TOP", "VIA CLASS/TOP"), q = axlLayerGet(layer), q ->color = gray, axlLayerSet(q))

axlClearObjectCustomColor(axlDBGetDesign() ->nets)

axlSetFindFilter( ?enabled '("noall" "pins") ?onButtons "pins")

axlAddSelectAll()

pins = axlGetSelSet()

axlClearObjectCustomColor(pins)

csetNets = axlSelectByProperty("net", "SPACING_CONSTRAINT_SET", spacingConstraint)

red_pins = setof(pin, pins, member(pin ->net, csetNets))

axlCustomColorObject(red_pins, red)

axlVisibleUpdate(t)

Plottting to a pdf  might be more difficult.

Hey Dave,

  Thanks a ton for the help.

Just so I can understand a little better, I have a couple questions for you if you don't mind:

1) Do you know where I can find what arguments these functions take?  I can be a little more independent if I had access to any of these syntaxes but the basic SKILL programming class doesn't really go over any of this stuff besides basic syntax like strcat, local variables, etc.  I've tried searching google all over and can't find what arguments belong to what functions.  I've also tried in the skill prompt to type "help(listnindex)" for example and can't find any documentation

2) When I try getting the first part to work (just setting everything to gray), nothing happens.  I actually only care about the bottom and top layers being initialized to gray, but anyway I figured it would look something like:

gray = listnindex(axlColorGet('all), '(190 190 190)) || 2

foreach(layer, '("ETCH/TOP" "PIN/TOP", "VIA CLASS/TOP"), q = axlLayerGet(layer), q ->color = gray, axlLayerSet(q))

axlClearObjectCustomColor(axlDBGetDesign() ->nets)

  axlVisibleUpdate(t)

3) lastly,  I want to set all pins AND vias to the color if they are associated with that specific spacing constraint.  I've modified it to be this:

  axlSetFindFilter( ?enabled (list "noall" "pins" "vias" "invisible")  ?onButtons (list "pins" "vias"))

axlAddSelectAll()

pins_and_vias = axlGetSelSet()

axlClearObjectCustomColor(pins_and_vias)

csetNets = axlSelectByProperty("net", "SPACING_CONSTRAINT_SET", spacingConstraint)

red_pins_and_vias = setof(pin, pins_and_vias, member(pin ->net, csetNets))

Thanks again for your help! 

1/ The user and reference manuals are a good place to start. ...\doc\sklangref\sklangref.pdf and ...\doc\sklanguser\sklanguser.pdf. Another quick reference is to look in the documentation for each function ...\share\pcb\examples\skill\DOC\FUNCS

2/ That should work. Do you get any error messages? Maybe you have some hilighting. Try removing that.

3/ OK. But don't forget to set the spacingConstraint variable to something.

Hi Dave,

  I'm still having trouble setting everything to a grey color initially..  I tried  

gray = 81 ;; this is the index from the listnindex(axlColorGet('all) for the gray color I want

foreach(layer, '("ETCH/TOP" "PIN/TOP", "VIA CLASS/TOP"), q = axlLayerGet(layer), q ->color = gray, axlLayerSet(q))

;;axlClearObjectCustomColor(axlDBGetDesign() ->nets) 

axlVisibleUpdate(t) 

Why won't this work?

I'm able to set my pins red using the axlCustomColorObject(list,red), but for some reason I can't color everything else initially to grey.

Really appreciate the help.  Thanks!