SKILL Progress Bar

Any suggestions on the best way to create a progress bar in SKILL? I
thought I would resize a form field as a progress bar (see below),
however it is not visible during execution.
---
Erik

procedure(pbform()
prog(()
ff_list=list(
list(
hiCreateLabel(
?name 'pb_message
?labelText "msg1"
)
(0:10)
(0:10)
) ; list

list(
hiCreateStringField(
?name 'pb
?prompt ""
?editable nil
)
(0:30)
(20:10)
0
) ; list
) ; list

hiCreateAppForm(
?name 'pb_form
?formTitle "progress bar"
?fields ff_list
?dontBlock t

)

;display form
hiDisplayForm(pb_form)

return(t)
)
)


pbform()


for(i 1 200
dprint(i)
)

pb_form->pb_message->value="msg2"

hiResizeField(pb_form 'pb (50:30))

 

(Erik Wanta) asked:

I sent Erik (to his corporate address) the gist of PCR 607074 which
I filed 07-24-2003 basically asking for a DFII progress bar when
loading any sizeable (millions of transistors) layout cellview.

Basically, I load our large 10-million Raptor SoC all the time into
DFII and I myself (and others) would like to see just such a DFII
progress bar.

In that PCR, the central architecture group discusses an existing
HI progress-bar widget which may be of use to you today.

Also discussed are a variety of methods to determine 'progress', e.g.,
- store the last-load time & compare against that previous time
- compare amount of data on disk vs amount of data loaded to VM
- peruse hierarchy based on pc.db for the total-time calculations
- etc.

Any ideas, please post to the NG so I can append them to the PCR.

 

Turns out IC440 had a progress bar SKILL program (thanks to sleuthing
by Andrew Beckett who located the source code for same).

Meanwhile, the framework guys are building new progress-bar widgets
as we speak (PCR 607074).

So, it seems best to offer support for the existing forms-based method,
until/unless the specialty widget arrives on the scene.

To that end, I opened a service-request ticket (32530684) for our friend
Erik to get what he needs (either by supporting the code Erik has written
and supplied or by providing aource to the existing progress-bar SKILL
if that src SKILL is usable, public, linted, capitalized, etc.).