Adding skill command to the toolbar incl. Icon

Hi Patrick

I see you know the method through "View > Customize toolbar". Are you instead looking for a SKILL command that would add a menu or toolbar? Have you seen the follwoing article: 

Article (20416434) Title: Adding and Appending Allegro Menu Items using SKILL
URL: https://support.cadence.com/apex/ArticleAttachmentPortal?id=a1Od000000050ObEAI

I'm attaching the PDF in case you don't have access to our COS website. 

Adding_Appending_ AllegroMenuItems_SKILL.pdf

Hello Juan, 

no, how to add a new menu like described in the pdf is not a problem. we are already doing this. --> this is going into the menu bar
We want to add it into the tool bar, like when doing it through the View > Customize Toolbar 

Hello Pat,

Kindly refer the picture how to add the tool bar and customise.

Regards,

HLB

Hello HLB, 

I need a way to do this programmatically. Doing it through the UI it not an issue but is not what we need.

Thanks

Patrick

I am in the same boat. Say I have 100 Users of allegro and I need to add a Icon on all of their machines. I need a programmatic way to do this just like adding skill Menu's . 

The only thing I can think of is recording a script that does it and forcing that to run right at bootup of the Allegro Instance . But thats hacky and error prone . Maybe this can be a feature added in the 25 release. 

I am in the same boat. Say I have 100 Users of allegro and I need to add a Icon on all of their machines. I need a programmatic way to do this just like adding skill Menu's . 

The only thing I can think of is recording a script that does it and forcing that to run right at bootup of the Allegro Instance . But thats hacky and error prone . Maybe this can be a feature added in the 25 release. 

Skill menus can be added easily (posting this for everyone else) and then follow the script reply I gave earlier. Launching a script from SKILL is easy too.

Define a CDS_SITE system variable like shown below:

test it with:

create your corporate folder structure inside that folder (skill, scripts, icons, footprints etc).

For this discussion you need this one:

Q:\ADK_SITE\pcb\skill

in this folder you need to do 2 things:

1. in allegro.ilinit (create it if it's missing) add this line: load "company_name_menu.il"

2.have a file named company_name_menu.il with a content like shown below:

first item in the list is the name to display in the menu, the second item in the list is the alias you gave to your SKILL function, as shown at the bottom.

file: company_name_menu.il

KNEMenuList = '(
    (popup "KNEOS")
        ("DFA Check" "dfaer")
        ("Open Symbol's Lib Path" "ofl")
        ("WEB Search" "dbpi")
    )

procedure( KNEMenuLoadTrig()
    ; add a new menu item before the help menu
    res = axlUIMenuRegister(-1 KNEMenuList)
) KNEMenuLoadTrig()

DFA Check file entry, loaded in allegro.ilinit with load "dfaErrorCheck.il", to depict complete setup of top menu

file: dfaErrorCheck.il

axlCmdRegister( "dfaer" `dfaerMain)

(defun dfaerMain ()
    printf("\nDFA error check by ANDAK CONSULTING LTD (c) 2019-2025.\n")
); end defun

having a menu added through skill is not a problem. the question here is about the Toolbar itself, incl. Icon