Ruler preferences

Hi,

Does anybody know if there is a way to fiddle with the font that is
used for the rulers in Virtuoso?

Thanks,
Jake

 

Hi Jake !

What's wrong with ruler font ? I personally find very nice ;-) ...
Just joking of course ;-)
More seriously. I don't know any skill function that is dedicated to
the ruler's font myself. I know however some functions that can help
you but whose impact is your whole DFII and not only the ruler:

if you type the following into your CIW:
hiGetFont("text")
You would get something like:
"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-12*"

If you try:
hiGetFont("label")
It may be comes with:
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*"

If you want to set you TEXT font to HELVETICA, MEDIUM, 18, you can do
it by executing:
hiSetFont("text" "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-18-*")

But as you can see, the 'TEXT' font impact is beyond the ruler.

To learn more about what I mentioned and eventually how to set this
from your .Xdefaults, please give a look at the following
documentation:
1. Virtuoso® Layout Editor User Guide
($CDSHOME/doc/vlehelp/vlehelp.pdf)

2. Cadence® User Interface SKILL Functions Reference
($CDSHOME/doc/skuiref/skuiref.pdf)

What I said here is based on what I know on IC 5.1.41 and I can't say
how it is with IC6, definitely better I guess !

I would stick to the default personally ... "les goûts et les couleurs
ne se discutent pas" though. (Sorry for my French proverb, my English
is so limited in this area :-( )

That's the first idea that sprangs to my head. Hope it helps you
anyway !

Riad.