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Select Pin TextBlock with SKILL

Eric Jordan
I am trying to find all the pin number textblocks and change the textblock to a specific number.
When I have a symbol selected, I can see each pin, but there is no textBlock property on the pins.
If I use one of the select functions and select the pin text, it's parent is a pin.
What's the correct way to get the textBlock of a specific pin on a symbol?
Here's some code I've tried:
When using skill to manually select a pin number (text as the search filter):
 
axlSetFindFilter(?enabled list("noall", "text") ?onButtons list("noall", "text"))
axlSingleSelectPoint()
; Manually Select Pin Number
pn = car(axlGetSelSet())
pn->objType
 
OUTPUT
"text"
 
pn->?
 
OUTPUT
(parentGroups justify isMirrored objType parent
    rotation mirrorType textBlock text xy
    readOnly bBox layer prop
)
 
pn->parent->objType
 
OUTPUT
 
"pin"
 
pn->parent->?
 
(fixedByTestPoint parentGroups pads definition parent
    relRotation relxy rotation mirrorType startEnd
    readOnly prop functionPins component testPoint
    isThrough isMirrored isMech isExploded branch
    net bBox xy number name
    objType use bondpad
)
 
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What I'd expect from the last output would be some way to access the "text" object on the pin
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  • B Bruekers

    Use axlDBGetAttachedText(pin)   where pin is the dbID of the pin.

  • Eric Jordan
    in reply to B Bruekers

    I tried this and it does not work. When I use axlDBGetAttachedText on a pin, I do get a DBID, but it has no properties. When I pass it to axlDBChangeText I get the following error: *WARNING* (axlDBChangeText): Require a text dbid, dbid:000001AA61EC6C00

    Thanks for the suggestion though - any other ideas?

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  • Eric Jordan
    in reply to B Bruekers

    I tried this and it does not work. When I use axlDBGetAttachedText on a pin, I do get a DBID, but it has no properties. When I pass it to axlDBChangeText I get the following error: *WARNING* (axlDBChangeText): Require a text dbid, dbid:000001AA61EC6C00

    Thanks for the suggestion though - any other ideas?

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  • B Bruekers
    in reply to Eric Jordan

    What inside id->objType?

    This should work :

    txtID = car(axlDBGetAttachedText(pinID))
    axlDBChangeText(txtID "a" 1)

  • Eric Jordan
    in reply to B Bruekers

    So the difference between the two is using car on the axlDBGetAttachedText, I missed that the function returns a list. It now works- I get a text object.

    Thanks!

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