ilInst label question

I am wanting to find an automatic method to annotate the owner of a
schematic in the schematic's title block. The general method of
ilInst~>cellView~>lib~>owner gives me the ownership of the library NOT
the cell. I have used geQuerySelSet() and I do not see a way to get
the cell's owner. Am I missing something? I did try creating an
ILLabel in the title block symbol that used
ddGetObjOwner(dbGetCellViewDdId(geGetEditCellView())) and this seemed
to work, but I wondered if this was a kludged method. Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

ilInst~>cellView~>view~>owner if you want the cellView owner
ilInst~>cellView~>cell~>owner if you want the cell owner

your method would also be OK if you did:

ddGetObjOwner(dbGetCellViewDdId(ilInst~>cellView))

That's essentially a procedural interface way of doing my first suggestion.
It's the same, really.

Andrew.

 

Thanks, Andrew, I didn't realize that all the database information for
the cellview was accessible in that fashion.

On a related topic, are properties stored in the property bag able to
be displayed via an ilInst label as well?

whisker

 

Yes.

ilInst~>cellView~>cell~>propName

Or if you write a SKILL function, you can explicitly open the bag,
get the value, close the bag, and return the property value.

You can do whatever you like in an ILLabel.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Thanks, Andrew, as always, you are a wellspring of knowledge.

One last question. Is it possible to define properties of the cell or
view or cellview that read an environment variable from the shell?
When I define a property with type = ILExpr and value = getShellEnvVar(
"PWD" ), it seems that it is NOT evaluated using SKILL and the ILLabel
that I use to display the property just shows getShellEnvVar( "PWD" )
instead of the path. Similarly, I tried setting the value to
getWorkingDir() and again it just regurgitates getWorkingDir() instead
to evaluating it using SKILL. It does this regardless of whether I do
it for the cellview, cell, or view. I am not really after the path, I
just used these for convenience of example.

whisker