Synchronizing view area's of two layout windows

[suresh j]

Hi,
Is there a way to synchronize the view area's of two layout cellview
windows so that if I zoom in to one cellview other will also do so
automatically. This will be very helpful to compare modifications done
on a cellview with the original cellview.

Thanks in advance.

rgds,
Suresh J

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Here's some code I wrote a while ago to do something similar. I then defined a
bindkey:

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>w" "(ABcopyWinView)")

Then you'd hit w in your source window, and then click in the destination
window, and it would copy the view settings across. I primarily used this for
debugging in an extracted view, and then zooming to the layout view to
actually fix it.

Regards,

Andrew.

/* ABcopyWinView.il

Author A.D.Beckett
Group Structured Custom, Cadence Design Systems Ltd
Machine SUN
Modified
By

Copies a window view from one window to another,
not necessarily of the same cellView

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) ABcopyWinView.il 08/07/01.15:30:32 1.1

*/

(procedure (ABcopyWinViewCB win done points)
(let (bbox)
(setq win (hiGetCurrentWindow))
(when (and done (windowp win) (windowp ABcopyWinViewFrom))
(setq bbox (hiGetViewBBox ABcopyWinViewFrom))
(hiZoomIn win bbox))))

/***************************************************************
* *
* (ABcopyWinView @optional (win nil)) *
* *
* Procedure to copy a view from one window to another *
* *
***************************************************************/

(procedure (ABcopyWinView @optional (win nil))
(unless win (setq win (hiGetCurrentWindow)))
(setq ABcopyWinViewFrom win)
(hiSetCurrentWindow win)
(when (windowp win)
(enterMultiRep ?prompts '("Point to the source window" "Point to the
destination window")
?points '((0 0))
?doneProc "ABcopyWinViewCB"
?dontDraw t
))
t)

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:51:35 +0530, suresh j <sureshjeeva00@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,
Is there a way to synchronize the view area's of two layout cellview
windows so that if I zoom in to one cellview other will also do so
automatically. This will be very helpful to compare modifications done
on a cellview with the original cellview.

Thanks in advance.

rgds,
Suresh J

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