walsh@stdc01.UUCP (Mike Walsh) (10/23/89)
I posted this a couple of weeks ago, and recieved no replies and saw not
postings. We have had problems with our newsfeed so If this is a repeat
I apologize.
The company I work for has recently transitioned to Mentor Graphics EDA
tools. Although expensive, we have found them to work very well for
most of our needs. The time has come to do some customizing of the
user interface to ease some of the operations that we do to our schematics.
Does anyone out there in net-land have any experience in creating/modifying
the popup windows supplied with NetEd. I have successfully added items
to the menus, but I would like to create a popup form, (Mentor refers to
them as Dialog Boxes) have a user fill in some information in that form,
and then process the information.
I have scoured the manuals and have not been able to find anything. Is what
I want to do even possible? The books seem to say it is, but I can not
find any examples. Is there an unreleased tool for creating popup forms?
I'd appreciate any help or suggestions that any one has to offer. We are
currently running Mentor Graphics version 6.1.
My second question, does anyone know whether or not Mentor is going to
support the new DN2500 ?
... Mike
Mike Walsh, Electrical Engineer
Star Technologies, Graphicon Products Division
Reserach Triangle Park, NC
walsh@stdc01.UUCP { ...!uunet!mcnc!rti!stdc01!walsh }rudy@neptune.AMD.COM (Rudy Albachten) (10/25/89)
In article <574@stdc01.UUCP> walsh@stdc01.UUCP (Mike Walsh) writes: >Does anyone out there in net-land have any experience in creating/modifying >the popup windows supplied with NetEd. I have successfully added items >to the menus, but I would like to create a popup form. Unfortunately, Mentor does not support user created forms. You can augment their popup menus with menus or items, define your own menus, use their forms in your menus, and associate menus with various windows (you obviously already know how to do this), but you can't define your own forms. Maybe in version 8.0 they'll support this obvious feature. Rudy Albachten Advanced Micro Devices PC Products Division, CAD Engineer/Supervisor rudy@neptune.amd.com
sm@tcom.stc.co.uk (Simon Marchant) (10/26/89)
A long time ago I was a 'Mentor Graphics' System Administrator and had cause to add menus to Neted. To do this it was necessary to write in a special menu description language a file and compile it with the Mentor Graphics "MISL" Compiler. The genorated code was then included or read by the NETED startup files in /idea/sys .... MISL is documented as part of NETED, but if I remember correctly there only a few pages of information. As I say it was a long time ago, but I hope this might be of some help. Simon Marchant, STC Telecom Harlow, Essex.
danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson) (10/28/89)
In article <574@stdc01.UUCP>, walsh@stdc01.UUCP (Mike Walsh) writes: > > My second question, does anyone know whether or not Mentor is going to > support the new DN2500 ? Mentor [supposedly] support the DN2500 from SR10.2 onward. I guess the reason is that the 2500 requires a patch tape to add a new sau directory to run under the current SR10.1 (which is used by Mentor V7.0) tools -- Danny Wilson IDACOM Electronics danny@idacom.uucp Edmonton, Alberta alberta!idacom!danny C A N A D A X.400 danny@idacom.cs.ubc.cdn