Set a label with the current loaded ADE state

Hi,

I am about to go nuts with these states in ADE: I find myself continously
overwrite states because I cannot remember after 2 days of work which state
I am currently using. I am wondering if anybody has an idea how to put a
cellview into the schematic with a dynamic label that reads the value of
the currently loaded state. If I also could get this function into all the
headers of my awd plots, then I could even get things right in half a year
from now.

An alternative would be to create a new state every time I forget which
state I am working on, but that is also not a very good idea as I will have
states all over....

Having only one state in each schematic is not so feasible as I overpopulate
my library with cellviews just because I can't use the state feature.

 

Hi,

sometimes it helps to go into the big dark forest and yell loud, and then go
home and do some homework. After some experimenting with loading and saving
states and checking the CDS.log and then looking a bit in the manual and
hacking a lot on the CIW I was able to find a workaround that fit my
original purpose: In some way get to know what state I am working on.

A nice little bindkey for the key ? was the result: This prints the value of
the last loaded state. If I save the last loaded state to another name,
then pressing ? will give me the new state name. This means that there is
no difference between 'save' and 'save as', but you can't have coffee /and/
sugar /and/ cream if you have only two choices....

(hiSetBindKey "Schematics" "Shift<Key>/" "(printf
\"%L\" (sevSession(hiGetCurrentWindow())->loadForm)->name->value)")

 

What I also discovered is that if I, instead of going directly to 'save
state', open the 'load state' menu item, the current loaded state is
backlighted. Problem is just if you have already started the save procedure
by exiting the analog artist, there is no way back. Pressing cancel on the
save dialog exits analog artist without saving.

After saving a state to a new name, the backlight in the load state dialog
change to that new state name also. This leads me to think that the
implementation of the same functionality in the 'save state' dialog should
not be a big problem. Would be a nice update for the next ISR?

 

If you quit the analog artist and she asks you if you want to save the
state, then you are really messed up if you don't remember which state you
were working on. That save dialog grab the focus and it is not possible to
use the bindkey in the schematic to get the save state.

=> New way of ending a session for me: First save and then exit, even if the
beast asks me another time if I want to save. Somebody brought half the
heart and half the brain to work the day the save state was implemented (or
tested) Honest opinion.

 

Hi Svenn,

There are a number of PCRs for save state functionality improvement.

Please log a service request, outlining these things, so that we can get
this through to R&D. If you like, ask in the service request that it's
assigned to me, as I'm familiar with the background of your request.

Of course, if you've already logged a service request (I didn't check), no
need to do it again.

Thanks,

Andrew.