Maintain "Persistence" of Find after done command is completed while routing.

Rik, indeed that works well and also allows one to tab key select based on the find option before deleting.
You can also do a window select as well and take out everything in one go.

I used to use funckey d  "delete; pick_to_grid -cursor; done" but have replaced it with yours.

To help with routing and in particular for on the fly routing width changes I added in to the env file

funckey x "prepopup ; pop dyn_option_select 'Options@:@Line width@:@New...' ;setwindow form.new_item"

Seems to work good.

Right now I have a function that just combines the toggle with adding a cline but will give your suggestion a try out.

funckey w  "add connect; toggle; etch length"

In 17.2 I noticed cadence has extended the UI menus so that a user can assign their own options via a right click Icon.
It is kind of handy and can save a trip to the main menus. Only thing is it is based on available commands as far
as I can see. It would be cool if there was something like having custom macros assignable to physical Icons in the UI.
My thinking is to do this now you kind of have to go the Skill road.

I may try combine your good example of toggle with something like the cursors. It would be neat to be able to toggle
through all of them just using one key without having to go to user preferences.

Hi,

This may be what you are looking for. All you have to do is to setup keyboard commands to always toggle on what you want. You can stay and do everything in general edit mode. For your exact problem do the following-

1. Define a key command to run "add connect". The example assigns the command to key "a" "funckey a  add connect" just add this to your ENV file 

2. Define a key for "Done" or just hit the F6 key or right click done as well.

The add connect will turn on the correct selections. "Done" will blank them out like you have mentioned

If you like to toggle on more stuff. - record and save a macro file to be assigned to a key as well. 

Cheers

Paul,

I’m coming to this topic late… apologies. I had similar Find Filter concerns, along with others that I wanted to address. This might be more than what you want, but it builds off of Rik's input which I think he gave me a while back and I have found very helpful.

-      Like you, I wanted the Find Filter defined with baseline settings dependent on the Application mode, and

• to re-use the same keyboard keys for dissimilar functions across Application modes. (Impossible with a straight ENV file solution)
• to define non Application mode Alias and Function keys depending on the Application Mode I invoked.
• to quickly modify the Find Filter without having to see it, or mouse to the Find Filter.
• to quickly switch to other Application modes
• for Etch Edit mode baseline grid auto set to 2.5 mils, for Placement mode baseline grid auto set to 25 mils.

I invoke this by putting the command name in the Allegro.men file.

Bill

axlCmdRegister("wtm_EtchKeyPad"  `wtm_ee_MKeyPad)

procedure( wtm_ee_MKeyPad( )

           axlSetFunckey( "/" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select 'Selection set@:@Select by Lasso'" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "*" "prepopup;pop neck" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "-" "prepopup;pop finish" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "Home" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Auto-interactive Delay Tune'" t)     

           axlSetFunckey( "Up" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Delay tune'" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "SUp" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Add vertex'" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "Pgup" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Add connect'" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "Right" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Scribble mode'" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "Down" "prepopup; pop singletrace" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "Pgdown" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select @:@Move;" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "SPgdown" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Move vertex';" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "Insert" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select @:@Delete" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "CInsert" "delete by rectangle " t)

           axlSetFunckey( "SInsert" "delete by line " t)

           axlSetFunckey( "End" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select @:@Slide; setwindow form.mini; FORM mini extend_selection NO; setwindow pcb" t)

           axlSetFunckey( "CEnd" "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select @:@Slide; setwindow form.mini; FORM mini extend_selection YES; setwindow pcb" t)

           ; Non Application Mode Keys

           axlSetAlias( "F9" "phase_tune")

           axlSetFunckey( "F10" "tvision; setwindow form.find; FORM find Nets YES; setwindow pcb" t)

           ; Find Filter - Interactive Modification

           axlSetAlias( "f1" "replay C:/Cadence/SPB_17.2/share/local/pcb/scripts/ff_clines_only.scr")

           axlSetAlias( "f2" "replay C:/Cadence/SPB_17.2/share/local/pcb/scripts/ff_csegs_only.scr")

           axlSetFunckey( "Left" "settoggle CMD f1 f2; $CMD;" t)

          ; Keyboard Switch - Application Modes           

           axlSetAlias( "t1" "wtm_EtchKeyPad")

           axlSetAlias( "t2" "wtm_PlaceKeyPad")

           axlSetFunckey( "F12" "settoggle CMD t1 t2; $CMD" t)

           ; Set a grid for working in Etch edit mode.

           grid = axlDBGridGet("TOP")

           grid->name = 'all

           grid->xGrids = 2.500

           grid->yGrids = 2.500

           axlDBGridSet(grid)            

           axlShell( "etchedit" )

           ; Find Filter - Baseline Settings

     axlShellPost( "setwindow form.find; FORM find all_off; FORM find ratsnests YES; FORM find Pins YES; FORM find Vias YES; FORM find cline_segs YES; setwindow pcb" )

); procedure

Hi Dale, thanks for the tip. I had macros setup but the main issue I had was with the "Done" When cadence means Done - "Your Done"

I do have a better handle on things now in particular the use of the modes.

Thanks  Paul. 

Bill in looking at your file, it strikes me that it is kind of like a Skill command that gets loaded, would that be right ?. I like the concept of what you have seems good and a time saver.

Thanks Paul.