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Dynamic arrays

Adhil
Adhil over 13 years ago

Hi!!

I am trying to create a dynamic array. please test out the folowing code. it works fine, but the handle that varies the columns is not very sensitive. how can i solve this problem?


pcDefinePCell(
  list(ddGetObj("adhillib") "rect1" "layout")
  (
   (Width  0.1)
   (Length 0.2)
  )
  let(((cv pcCellView))
   rectRodObj = rodCreateRect(
                             ?name     "myRect"
                             ?cvId     cv
                             ?layer    list("M1" "drawing")
                             ?width    Width
                             ?length   Length
                             ?origin   list(0 0)
        )
                     
  )

   )

pcDefinePCell(
  list(ddGetObj("adhillib") "rectarray1" "layout")
  (
   (columns 1)
   (space 0.2)
  )
  let(((cv pcCellView) (width1 0.1) width2 (length1 0.2) cellview rectRodObj rectRodObj1)
                       
   mosaicbBox = dbCreateParamSimpleMosaicByMasterName(cv "adhillib" "rect1" "layout"
                                                              "rect_array" 0:0 "R0" 1 columns 0.2 space list(list("Width" "float" width1) list("Length" "float" length1))  )
                        cellview = dbOpenCellViewByType("adhillib" "rect1" "layout")
                 bBox     = dbComputeBBoxNoNLP(cellview)
                 width2   = xCoord(upperRight(bBox)) - xCoord(lowerLeft(bBox))
                 columnbBoxWidth  = xCoord(upperRight(mosaicbBox ~> bBox)) - xCoord(lowerLeft(mosaicbBox ~> bBox))
                        columnbBoxLength = yCoord(upperRight(mosaicbBox ~> bBox)) - yCoord(lowerLeft(mosaicbBox ~> bBox))


                        rectRodObj = rodCreateRect(
                             ?name     "myRect10"
                             ?cvId     cv
                             ?layer    list("ALPHA" "drawing")
                             ?width    space - width1
                             ?length   length1
                             ?origin   list(width2 0)
        )

                        rectRodObj1 = rodCreateRect(
                             ?name     "myRect11"
                             ?cvId     cv
                             ?layer    list("ALPHA" "drawing")
                             ?width    columnbBoxWidth
                             ?length   columnbBoxLength
                             ?origin   list(0 0)
        )

                        rodAssignHandleToParameter(
                             ?parameter          "space"
                             ?rodObj             rectRodObj
                             ?handleName         "centerRight"
                             ?stretchDir         "X"
                             ?displayName        "space"
                             ?displayExpression  "space"
                             ?updateIncrement    0.1
                             ); rodAssignHandleToParameter

                       rodAssignHandleToParameter(
                             ?parameter          "columns"
                             ?rodObj             rectRodObj1
                             ?handleName         "centerRight"
                             ?stretchDir         "X"
                             ?displayName        "columns"
                             ?displayExpression  "columns"
                             ?updateIncrement    space
                             ); rodAssignHandleToParameter
              

     )
      )

 Adhil

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 13 years ago

    Adhil,

    As a former colleague of mine used to say "don't be afraid of the lambda". A lambda is simply an unnamed function, defined directly in the code. I could equally well have done:

                                   procedure(MyStretchUserFunction(struct)
                                        ; printf("STRUCT: %L\n" struct->??)
                                        round(struct->paramVal+struct->increment/struct->userData)
                                   )

    and then passed ?userFunction 'MyStretchUserFunction to rodAssignHandleToParameter. All it is doing is taking the amount of increment (in microns) and dividing by the space parameter (passed in using userData, although could have got it from the instance, I expect) to give the overall change in number of columns - the function returns the new value of the parameter being stretched. In this case we don't a one to one stretch, because the increment is in microns, and this is an integer.

    The tag (I assume you mean the displayed expression enabled with the ?displayName and ?displayExpression arguments) can't be moved, as far as I know - there's no argument to control it, and if you read the manual it tells you where it's going to be placed.

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 13 years ago

    Adhil,

    As a former colleague of mine used to say "don't be afraid of the lambda". A lambda is simply an unnamed function, defined directly in the code. I could equally well have done:

                                   procedure(MyStretchUserFunction(struct)
                                        ; printf("STRUCT: %L\n" struct->??)
                                        round(struct->paramVal+struct->increment/struct->userData)
                                   )

    and then passed ?userFunction 'MyStretchUserFunction to rodAssignHandleToParameter. All it is doing is taking the amount of increment (in microns) and dividing by the space parameter (passed in using userData, although could have got it from the instance, I expect) to give the overall change in number of columns - the function returns the new value of the parameter being stretched. In this case we don't a one to one stretch, because the increment is in microns, and this is an integer.

    The tag (I assume you mean the displayed expression enabled with the ?displayName and ?displayExpression arguments) can't be moved, as far as I know - there's no argument to control it, and if you read the manual it tells you where it's going to be placed.

    Andrew.

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