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Make layout window active when mouseover in Cadence 6

Hi all,

I am currently doing some layout with Virtuoso (XL) in Cadence 6. The issue I'm having is when selecting a layer from the LSW window, then start drawing the layer and scroll up or down with the arrow keys of your keyboard, the LSW window stays active and you start scrolling through your layers instead of your layout window. You always need to right click your mouse button to make the layout window active again. What I want is that the layout window becomes active from the moment you start drawing or when your cursor is above your layout window...It's always been like that in the previous versions from Cadence Virtuoso. I have been going through all the settings but I can't find anything.

Any suggestions?

Wim Verhaegen - Senior Layout Engineer ICsense

Andrew Beckett over 13 years ago

Hi Wim,
envSetVal("ui" "sessionFocusPolicy" 'cyclic "CanvasDelay")
; this next setting is the default anyway
; envSetVal("ui" "canvasFocusDelay" 'int 200)
This is covered in more detail in solution 11663810
Regards,
Andrew.
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Wim Verhaegen over 13 years ago

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the quick response! Your solution works perfect!
Best regards
Wim
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jazzmatazz over 13 years ago

Hello , This feature works nice ,but how I can toggle between different windows for example from schematic to layout when put mouse cursor over the desire window ?

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Andrew Beckett over 13 years ago

That's a window manager setting, nothing to do with Cadence itself. For example, in the version of KDE I'm using (4.3.4 - a reasonably recent version, so it may not be in the same place for you), in the System Settings, there's Window Behavior, and you can set the focus policy on the Focus tab to "Focus Follows Mouse" for example. In older KDE versions this was done in kcontrol. There's a similar setting in Gnome - and indeed pretty much every window manager I've ever used...
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Andrew.
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