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Message started by Matt VD on Apr 24^th, 2007, 1:23pm

Title: viewType for ams_state cellview - menuTrigger
Post by Matt VD on Apr 24^th, 2007, 1:23pm

Hello,
I have done a lot of Skill coding in the past, but I am stuck on one small issue. I would like to install an extra menu for the ADE upon opening it in from the cellview "ams_state1" view. (I know I can do this with the menus folder approach, but don't like this approach for various reasons.)
My question is what is the viewType for the analogArtist in this case? For opening the ADE from the Schematic, the following works fine (postInstall trigger):
deRegUserTriggers("analogArtist-schematic" nil nil 'sevAddCustomMenus )
However, I can't find out how to trigger off opening an amsState from the cellView state approach. I have tried using viewType = "adestate" to no avail.
Any suggestions for how to do this?
Thanks,

Matt.

Title: Re: viewType for ams_state cellview - menuTrigger
Post by rajdeep on Apr 25^th, 2007, 8:47am

There is one command to get all the viewTypes ddMapGetViewTypeList(). It lists out all the valid viewTypes. But not sure this will help you.

Rajdeep

Title: Re: viewType for ams_state cellview - menuTrigger
Post by Matt VD on Apr 25^th, 2007, 8:59am

Thanks Rajdeep... I did try that, and tried using most of the different viewTypes there, but none of them worked.
I think the problem goes back to the form nature of the ADE... if I do deGetViewType() of the ADE, then it gives "unknown". If I do it while a schematic is open, it gives the correct value - "schematic". SO because of this (form nature), I am not sure if I can trigger off the ADE form launching by itself unattached to anything else. (I also have the same problem if I go to CIW/Tools/Analog Environment/Simulation).

Title: Re: viewType for ams_state cellview - menuTrigger
Post by Andrew Beckett on May 8^th, 2007, 7:32am

Matt,

ADE isn't really a "DE" application, which is why the de trigger doesn't work (unless started from a schematic).

I suggest you contact Cadence support - there's a PCR for this, and there's internal ways of doing this. I'd sooner that we record the fact that a customer wants this rather than me posting a workaround which uses private functions (you can always ask the AE dealing with your service request to ask me about it).

Regards,

Andrew.