A question about hardCopyOptions

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

Hi Cadence guys,

Why isn't the hcMailLogNames and hcHeader documented in the OCEAN
Reference manual? I tried to use them as ?arguments to hardCopyOptions,
but that didn't work, so I had to use the form below. Found this in a
white paper from Cadence. Are ther more "secret" options out there? Just
imagine how my mailbox was filling up due to hardCopy() calls

Another question is, why do I have to execute the (rexCompile " ") once
on the CIW line before it works properly?

Is there a better way to replace \s (whitespace) with _ in titles to be
used in file names for plots?

(rexCompile " ")
(setq cnt 1)
(foreach wid (awvGetWindowList)
awvSetCurrentWindow( wid )
(setq title wid->awvSaveWaveInfoDpl->title->label)
(rexExecute title)
(setq filename (rexReplace title "_" 0))
hardCopyOptions(
?hcNumCopy 1
?hcOrientation 'landscape
?hcOutputFile (sprintf nil "%s.eps" filename cnt)
?hcPaperSize "DIN A4"
?hcPlotterName "EPS "
)
hardCopyOptions("hcHeader" nil)
hardCopyOptions("hcMailLogNames" nil)
hardCopy()
cnt++
)

--
Svenn

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Svenn,

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:43:21 +0200, Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn.are@bjerkem.de>
wrote:

Hi Cadence guys,

Why isn't the hcMailLogNames and hcHeader documented in the OCEAN
Reference manual? I tried to use them as ?arguments to hardCopyOptions,
but that didn't work, so I had to use the form below. Found this in a
white paper from Cadence. Are ther more "secret" options out there? Just
imagine how my mailbox was filling up due to hardCopy() calls

Another question is, why do I have to execute the (rexCompile " ") once
on the CIW line before it works properly?

Is there a better way to replace \s (whitespace) with _ in titles to be
used in file names for plots?

(rexCompile " ")
(setq cnt 1)
(foreach wid (awvGetWindowList)
awvSetCurrentWindow( wid )
(setq title wid->awvSaveWaveInfoDpl->title->label)
(rexExecute title)
(setq filename (rexReplace title "_" 0))
hardCopyOptions(
?hcNumCopy 1
?hcOrientation 'landscape
?hcOutputFile (sprintf nil "%s.eps" filename cnt)
?hcPaperSize "DIN A4"
?hcPlotterName "EPS "
)
hardCopyOptions("hcHeader" nil)
hardCopyOptions("hcMailLogNames" nil)
hardCopy()
cnt++
)

Yes, I'm aware of this. For some bizarre reason a decision was made not to
document these - because they don't work properly...

Actually, there is a public, documented, way of using them, as covered in
sourcelink solution 1844194 . Use:

awvSetOptionValue("hcHeader" nil)
awvSetOptionValue("hcMailLogNames" nil)

instead.

The rexCompile in your example is needed to compile a pattern of a white
space, and then the rexExecute will match space in the title, and rexReplace
will replace it with underscore.

Note you always have to be careful with the pattern matching functions because
it's always possible that some Cadence function uses the rex functions itself,
and so recompiles a pattern between you compiling one and using it with the
rexExecute (for example).

Also, I'm not sure the above would necessarily work with wavescan as the
waveform tool - I've not checked whether this awvSaveWaveInfoDpl attribute
would be stored on the pseudo-window id that is created for wavescan windows.

Regards,

Andrew.