How to stop prompts in schematic editor?

Hi,

In the cadence virtuoso schematic editor, everytime I use "w" to add a
wire or "c" or "m" to copy or move , a prompt appears and I use the
hide button to remove it from my screen.

Can I use some skill settings in my cds.lib to avoid thse prompts ( &
use default settins)?

Thanks very much for the help.

-Raghavendra

 

Correction: I meant some settings in .cdsinit or .cdsenv.

Thanks.

 

That sounds strange to me. I do not recall ever seeing behavior
like that. I assume the "prompt" is a popup window. Exactly what
do they say?

AFAIK, this is *not* default behavior (and not behavior I would know
how to induce). Perhaps you could try removing all your
customizations (site/project/user/.), and see if he strange
popups go away.

-Jay-

 

I believe Raghavendra meant the command
options form.
This behaviour can be disabled by putting

ui showOptionForms boolean nil

in the .cdsenv or

envSetVal("ui" "showOptionForms" 'boolean nil)

in the .cdsinit file.

Bernd

 

Raghavendra ,

CIW -> Options -> user preferences => User Preferences Form
There is a Boolean button - "Options displayed when commands start".
Switch it OFF if it is ON.

I do not know how to set this in .cdsinit

regards,

 

There are several ways to control this:

envSetVal("ui" "showOptionForms" 'boolean nil)

or

hiGetCIWindow()->expertMode=nil

in SKILL, or in the .cdsenv file:

ui showOptionForms boolean nil

You may want to check if you have this set to t somewhere...

Andrew.

 

More probably it is the enterfunction form (also known as an "option form").

The .cdsenv setting to turn this off is:

ui showOptionForms boolean nil

which is the default value.

-Pete Zakel
()

If at first you don't succeed, try again.
After that, give up.
There's no sense in being a damn fool about it.


-- W.C. Fields

 

Thanks everyone for the replies.

As an extension to the previous question:

- Is it possible to selectievly turn this option ON and OFF for
ShowOptionsForm

For example, I want the options form for "r"-rotate while I do not want
to see it for other commands.

Alternatively, if I turn off this option for all commands, is there a
way (Bundkey? Hotkey?) to selectievly make the options form appear
whenever I need it.

Thanks,
Raghavendra

 

See below:

Press F3 .

 

The F3 key should be bound to toggle the options form on and off.

-Pete Zakel
()

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