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How to access user preferences via SKILL?

EvanShultz

I found article 20482607 in COS (https://support.cadence.com/apex/ArticleAttachmentPortal?id=a1O0V000009ET07UAG), titled "How to customize the User Preferences Editor with custom variables".

This seems to work fine and the customizations show up in the UI, but I haven't figured out how to access those new user prefs (or any user pref, for that matter) in my SKILL programs. axlDBGetDesign() doesn't seem to have any property that helps me and I don't get any hits with a bunch of search terms in algroskill.pdf. Nor does searching this forum or online help. They also aren't shown when running "set" in the Command window (though many user prefs aren't there so I'm not concerned).

Can anybody show me how to access user prefs, especially custom ones, via SKILL?

As a related aside, is there any way to set a default value for a custom user pref? With a checkbox the wording of the pref could be inverted to make unchecked the desired default state, but with a STRING or ENUM how can I set the default value?

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  • EvanShultz

    I was finally able to get the answer that defaults are not able to be set for custom user prefs. I asked for an enhancement to support this.

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  • EvanShultz

    I was finally able to get the answer that defaults are not able to be set for custom user prefs. I asked for an enhancement to support this.

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