Storing a form as a property of a disembodied list

[suresh j]

Hi all,
In a normal case where I will store the form as a global varible, I do,
myForm = hiCreateAppForm(
?name 'myForm
...
)

But what should I pass to the ?name parameter if I want to store the
form as a property of a disembodied list.
myList = list(nil)
myList->form = hiCreateAppForm(
?name WhatShouldComeHere
...
)

Thanks.

regards,
Suresh J

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Suresh,

You can't. It has to be a global variable.

The reason for this is that it must be available in the global scope, because
updates to the form need to be described in such a way that they can be output
into the CDS.log file for subsequent replay (if you desired), and also the form
would not know the scope to update local variables (say).

So you can store the return value of hiCreateAppForm into a dpl like you've
done in the second example, but the ?name argument would still have to be
a global variable. The form structure would then be stored in both the DPL
and the global variable - but because it is a reference, any changes to the form
structure would be visible from either the DPL or the global variable.

Regards,

Andrew.

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:40:12 +0530, suresh j <sureshjeeva00@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi all,
In a normal case where I will store the form as a global varible, I do,
myForm = hiCreateAppForm(
?name 'myForm
...
)

But what should I pass to the ?name parameter if I want to store the
form as a property of a disembodied list.
myList = list(nil)
myList->form = hiCreateAppForm(
?name WhatShouldComeHere
...
)

Thanks.

regards,
Suresh J

--
Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd