External applications within Cadence

I would like to add a new view to my Cadence libraries to be opened by
openoffice. The idea is for designers to add a mini spec for each cell
in word format. Can anyone point me in the right direction on using
external apps from within Cadence? I have been googling and
searching the Cadence docs but no good hits have come up.

Thanks

 

Take a look at deRegApp(), the "Cadence Application Infrastructure
User Guide", the data.reg file, registry/data, registry/tools.

IIRC, if you want your cellview name to be "spec", you'll create
registry/data/spec.reg and registry/tools/spec.reg to declare that
your new view exists, and then use deRegApp() to explain what
to do (system("ooffice yadayada")) when somebody wants to
edit a "spec".

-Jay-